Donald C. Meyer currently serves as Counselor to the Director, with his focus on bequest, trust, and other deferred giving to Hoover.  

He served as Director of Resource Development for Hoover from 1997 - 2013.  Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, Meyer served in senior legal and development capacities at Princeton University (1981-1988) and Stanford (1988 - 1997).

At Princeton, he served as University Counsel (Tax) and was actively involved in the Campaign for Princeton (1981 - 1986).  At Stanford, Meyer served as Director of Planned Giving (1988 - 1994) during its Centennial Campaign and then as a Principal Gifts officer (1994-1997).  For the past twenty years, he also has served as an independent estate, tax, and planned giving consultant to leading charities through the Kaspick & Co. division of TIAA-CREF, where he is nationally recognized for creative and effective gift arrangements.

Meyer graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in English in 1965 and earned his JD summa cum laude and Order of the Coif from the University of Iowa Law School in 1968, becoming a partner at the Simmons Perrine law firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with a focus on tax and securities law, and later General Counsel and Assistant to the President of Speidel Newspapers Inc.