Stan Meiburg Ph.D.

Executive Director

The Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability- Wake Forest University

Dr. Stan Meiburg serves as the Executive Director of The Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. Prior to that he worked as the Director of the Master of Arts in Sustainability Program and associated dual degree and certificate programs at Wake Forest University as well as working with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences .

Meiburg served as Acting Deputy Administrator for the EPA from 2014 to 2017, capping a 39-year career with the agency. He is known for leading efforts to protect the nation’s air and water, clean up hazardous and toxic waste sites, build collaborative relationships with state and tribal environmental programs, and promote sound management in EPA.

Meiburg joined the EPA in 1977 in Washington, D.C., and later served as Deputy Regional Director of the EPA’s Atlanta office and as the Deputy Regional Administrator in Dallas, Texas. He was only the second person in the agency’s history to serve as Deputy Regional Administrator in more than one region. From 1985 to 1990, he served with the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards in Research Triangle Park.