Early Life and Education
Meyer was born in 1944 to Reggie Meyer and his wife Eve. Reggie was a Flight Lieutenant in Coastal Command of the RAF who was killed in action over the Greek island of Ikaria 13 days before his son was born. Meyer was educated at Lancing, the Lycee Henri IV in Paris and Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated in History (he has been an Honorary Fellow of Peterhouse since 2002). After graduating, he attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies at Bologna.
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