NYU Wagner

Katherine O'Regan is Associate Professor of Public Policy, and Director of the Public and Nonprofit Management and Analysis Program (PNP) at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. With Ingrid Gould Ellen, she co-directs Wagner's Taub Urban Center. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and spent ten years teaching at the Yale School of Management prior to joining the Wagner faculty in 2000. She teaches courses in microeconomics, program evaluation, and urban economics, and has received teaching awards from Berkeley, Yale, and NYUWagner.

Professor O'Regan's research focuses on issues and programs affecting the urban poor and the neighborhoods in which they live, including transportation, employment, housing and isolation problems. She also works on issues of good governance and partnerships for nonprofits. She has conducted work in New York as part of a Wagner team examining the educational experience of immigrants in New York City Public Schools, and is currently investigating neighborhood economic transitions over the past thirty years. Among others, she serves on the advisory board for the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, the research advisory committee for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and the research advisory boards for the National Center for Nonprofit Enterprise, and the Reinvestment Fund.