Ted Egan Ph.D. is the Chief Economist of the San Francisco Office of Economic Analysis. SF economy and the progress made since the adoption of the SF Economic Development Strategy that he prepared for the city in 2008.

He is a regional economist with extensive experience leading economic development strategies for cities and regions around the world. As a Director at ICF International, a major global consulting firm, he led the creation of San Francisco’s first economic development plan in 2006. Before that assignment he managed city competitiveness and technology-based economic development strategies in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom, prepared software industry diversification strategies in the Middle East and Latin America, and developed a large-scale statistical model to support economic strategy and site selection in U.S. metropolitan areas.

He has worked in fields as diverse as biotechnology and bio-product industry development strategy in Ontario, tourism strategy development in Scotland, science and technology policy in New Jersey, and workforce development in Texas. In 2004, Dr. Egan led the California State University’s first system-wide economic impact study, which examined how the 23 CSU campuses contribute vital educational, research, and community resources to the diverse regional economies of California. He has also presented his original research at numerous academic and professional conferences, in the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, and India.

Dr. Egan joined the Controller’s Office as Chief Economist of the OEA in April 2007. In addition to his duties at the OEA, he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught courses in urban and regional economic development since 2004. In addition to his doctoral degree from the University of California at Berkeley, he also has a M.A. from SUNY-Buffalo, and a B.A. in Economics from the Johns Hopkins University.