After graduating from the
Dalton School, Meyer went to
Harvard University, where she earned
Phi Beta Kappa and
summa cum laude honors as the valedictorian of her class in 1981. She earned a master's degree in economics at the
University of Cambridge in 1982, and completed her Ph.D. at
Stanford University in 1986. Prior to becoming a fellow of Nuffield in 1988, Meyer was a junior research fellow in economics in
St John's College, Oxford, from 1985 to 1988. Whilst at Oxford, Meyer was a doctoral advisor to
Mark Carney, the 24th and current
Prime Minister of Canada. In 2025, the
National Post published a report in which three academics accused Mr. Carney of plagiarism, claiming that his doctoral thesis had at least 10 instances of plagiarism. Meyer released a statement: “I believe you are mischaracterizing this work. As an academic of nearly 40 years, I see no evidence of plagiarism in the thesis you cited nor any unusual academic practices.” ==Recognition==