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Laurence Meyer (born March 8 1944) is an economist and was a United States Federal Reserve System governor from June 1996 to January 2002.Meyer received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. He then taught at Washington University in St. Louis for 27 years. Meyer also ran an economic consulting firm Laurence H. Meyer and Associates with two former students.