Robin Keegan
Deputy Assistant Secretary For Economic Development, Office Of Community Planning And Development, U.S. Department Of Housing And Urban Development
Robin Keegan serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Development in HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development. In this role, Robin oversees a portfolio of $4.5 billion in Congressionally directed projects that range from affordable housing and homelessness prevention to resilient infrastructure and small business grants and loans. Prior to joining HUD, Robin served as the former Executive Director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority and Office of Community Development, and founder of Spring Industries, LLC. In these capacities, Robin designed successful strategies for multiple multi-billion-dollar responses to natural and human-caused disasters for communities across the country.
Robin is a sought-after policy thought leader skilled in solving intractable problems through tactical knowledge of federal, state, and local policies and funding to create innovative and transformative strategies to rebuild and strengthen communities. Robin's work is rooted in the fact that equitable and inclusive communities provide the strongest outcomes.
Robin has also actively trained the next generation of community real estate developers and disaster resilience experts through a dual position as Adjunct Lecturer in Tulane University's Master of Sustainable Real Estate Program School of Social Work’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy.