Rachel Loeb

Majoring in American history and Asian studies at Northwestern, Rachel Loeb studied abroad in Vietnam in 1993, and continued to travel in Asia after college. During the trip, she got a marketing job at Saigon South, a private-public partnership between the Vietnamese government and a Taiwanese investor building a new city from scratch. Rachel returned to the US to study urban planning at MIT and work in economic redevelopment planning in Boston for two years before finally moving to NYC. Wanting to involve herself in all aspects of development, she spent spent seven years at AvalonBay before joining World-Wide to spearhead many of its ground-up developments and acquisitions.