Paul Raetsch, MRP

Director, Philadelphia Regional Office (retired)
Economic Development Administration
Mays Landing, NJ


Paul Raetsch spent most of his career with the U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration. He retired in 2007, after serving eight years as Regional Director of the Philadelphia Regional Office. Under his leadership, the agency was a partner in the development and implementation of many disaster recovery efforts in collaboration with FEMA and Economic Development Districts, colleges and universities, and many regional and local economic development intermediaries throughout the northeast United States.

He has been an adjunct Professor of Public Administration in the Masters of Public Management programs at John Jay College in New York City and Marywood University in Scranton, as well as in undergraduate programs at Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, the University of Southern Colorado, Lackawanna College and Burlington County College.

He has a BS in Political Science and a Masters of Regional Planning, both from the Pennsylvania State University.