Neil Veilleux is a senior consultant at Meister Consultants Group (MCG). By leveraging participation and dialogue tools as well as sector-specific expertise, Mr. Veilleux enables clients to create successful sustainability strategies and policies. He leads the firm’s renewable heating initiatives, having recently engaged business and government stakeholders to assess renewable heating policies and opportunities on behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Under the auspices of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar America City (SAC) Partnership in New York City, Mr. Veilleux was the lead author of New York City’s Long-term Solar Strategy and Community Solar program plans.

Mr. Veilleux has also served as a Rappaport Public Policy Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a Fulbright scholar in Germany, a Renewable Energy Fellow for the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and on the Policy Committee for the New England Clean Energy Council (NECEC). He earned a MA in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University and a B.A. in English from Sewanee: the University of the South.