governor Matt Meyer

About the Governor Matt Meyer

Governor Matt Meyer is a former public school math teacher and small business owner who served as New Castle County Executive from 2017 through January 2025. As the leader of Delaware’s largest local government, Matt proved that government can still work for the people–delivering real results for real people and making real progress for Delaware’s working families. He is bringing that same result-driven leadership to communities across Delaware by creating an effective government that reflects our values and priorities.

In just his first year in office, Governor Meyer has launched a statewide medical-debt relief effort, cancelling over $50 million in debt for hardworking families, made historic investments in affordable housing, and created the Delaware Office of Workforce Development to expand earn and learn opportunities. He is also showing how states can serve as a model for responsible AI governance, including by partnering with OpenAI for a first-in-the-nation certification program for students and state employees, and requiring companies to pay their fair share when connecting data centers to utilities.

Growing up in Delaware, Matt attended schools in the Brandywine School District, followed by Wilmington Friends School, and then studied Computer Science & Political Science at Brown University. He then moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where he learned Swahili and created Ecosandals, a recycled footwear company that sold environmentally friendly footwear to customers in 17 countries on five continents. Matt later spent 12 months in Mosul, Iraq, as a diplomat embedded with the United States Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn. He is married to First Lady Lauren Meyer, an emergency room physician, and they have three boys.