Kirsten McGregor

Kirsten McGregor is Principal of Sagax Associates, an economic recovery and resilience consulting firm that she founded in 2013. Kirsten has also held prominent roles including Deputy Director of the Delaware Economic Development Office, Economic Development Specialist for the US Economic Development Administration, Economic Recovery Lead for New Jersey following Hurricane Sandy for the National Disaster Recovery Framework, and Senior Policy Advisor on President Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force.

Kirsten is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate, a Senior Fellow at the University of Delaware (UD) Biden Institute of Public Administration, advisor for UD’s Island Policy Lab - the United Nations Small Island Nation Universities Consortium, a visiting lecturer for the University of Pennsylvania among several other universities nationwide. Kirsten recently completed her term as a member of the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Board of Directors and NADO's Research Foundation Advisory Committee. She is a member of the research and academic-based American Real Estate Society and is a member of the the National Rural Economic Developers Association, the National Hazard Mitigation Association, and the Commercial Industrial Realty Council.

Among several recognitions, Kirsten was listed on Forbes Magazine’s "Next 1000" emerging businesses to follow and was voted as “a leading woman in business in Delaware'' by Delaware Today magazine. Kirsten was interviewed in a USA Today article on challenges with federal disaster funding and related capacity challenges facing state and local governments. Kirsten received her Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and earned her BA concentrating on Government from Franklin & Marshall College.