Katie Paris

Director, Building LeBreton and Real Estate Transactions Real Estate and Development Branch at National Capital Commission

Speaker

As Director of Building LeBreton and Transactions in the Real Estate and Development Branch at the National Capital Commission, Katie Paris oversees the planning and implementation of the NCC’s new approach to redeveloping LeBreton Flats, ensuring an open and collaborative approach to master planning and a rigorous and market-tested phasing strategy. She also oversees the NCC’s real estate transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, long-term ground leasing, easements, and licenses of occupation. Katie previously had 20 years’ experience in the public, non-profit and private sectors in both the US and Canada. She was a Director in Project Development at PPP Canada, where she supported efforts to fund P3 public transit projects. She has served as an advisor in sustainability and green buildings and was certified as a LEED AP in Neighbourhood Development. Her US-based transactional experience includes acquisitions and dispositions of brownfields, as well as land conservation transactions. Katie holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a Master’s of Environmental Studies from the Yale School of the Environment, and a bachelor’s from Stanford University.