Jen Mayer

Jen Mayer

Jen Mayer leads the third cohort of City Accelerator, which focuses on infrastructure finance. Jen brings more than 25 years of experience advising federal, state, and local transportation and environmental agencies on infrastructure finance and policy.

Jen Mayer has more than 25 years of experience advising federal, state, and local transportation and environmental agencies on infrastructure finance and policy. As a consultant for Ernst and Young Infrastructure Advisors and Apogee Research, Inc., and as a technical advisor for the Federal Highway Administration, she helped state and local agencies create financial plans and issue bonds for infrastructure projects, create revolving loan funds, and consider and implement public-private partnerships (PPPs) and other financing innovations. Jen holds a B.A. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Political Science, and an MBA from Haas-UC-Berkeley. She was the founding chair of the Transportation Research Board’s P3 Subcommittee, is currently co-chair of TRB’s Revenue and Finance Committee, and was selected for the Donella Meadows Sustainability Fellows program, focusing on systems thinking in infrastructure.

Jen Mayer

Contributing Articles

P3s Can Be Bad for Racial Equity — But They Don’t Have to Be

Governments can structure arrangements with private contractors that consider impacts on low-income individuals and people of color. Searching for the words “P3” and “equity” online will yield many results, but most won’t discuss fairness or social justice. In the P3 context, equity usually means financial equity, as in the direct capital investment made by private companies in long-term concession arrangements. …

Thinking About a P3? Better Ask These Questions First

Washington, D.C.’s innovative Office of Public-Private Partnerships offers a good case study in to assess whether a P3 makes sense for a particular city project. The City Accelerator cohort on Urban Infrastructure Finance focused on innovative tools, models and revenue sources that can help cities across the country address their infrastructure challenges, while promoting equity for diverse communities and incorporating the realities …

Which P3 Model Works Best For Your Project?

With more than a dozen different ways to structure a public-private partnership, figuring out the most appropriate one for a given project can be hard. Here’s a list of what’s out there. The City Accelerator cohort on Urban Infrastructure Finance focused on innovative tools, models and revenue sources that can help cities across the country address their infrastructure challenges while promoting equity …

If P3s Are the Answer, What Was the Question?

Public-private partnerships aren’t free money. But they can be used to improve performance. The City Accelerator cohort on Urban Infrastructure Finance focused on innovative tools, models and revenue sources that can help cities across the country address their infrastructure challenges while promoting equity for diverse communities and incorporating the realities of climate change. This is the first installment of a three-part series …

Beyond the Numbers: Telling the Infrastructure Story

How can cities get better at making the case for infrastructure? The third cohort of the City Accelerator, which kicks off April 15th in Denver, includes four cities that need to finance improvements to vital, but often overlooked infrastructure. St. Paul needs to come up with an overall framework and strategy for stormwater control for three critical developments. Pittsburgh needs …

Contributing Resources

Resilience, Equity, and Innovation: The City Accelerator Guide to Urban Infrastructure Finance

In our latest City Accelerator guide, “Resilience, Equity, and Innovation,” we share the tools and processes four cities, Pittsburgh, Saint Paul, San Francisco and Washington D.C., explored in an effort to increase equity and fund infrastructure. With new approaches to managing public resources, these cities showed how low-income residents in particular benefit from capital projects that drive cities forward. Every …

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