Leif Selkregg
Raised in a community-minded family in Alaska, Leif Selkregg began his career during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and trained as an architect at the University of Oregon. He was a Loeb Fellow in 1988-89.
Through his Loeb Fellowship experience and connections, he began his first international endeavor to develop and lead a program management division for an international construction company in flourishing London, focused on a large-scale master plan for Canary Wharf. Also out of his Loeb Fellowship experience, Selkregg’s passion for program and project management was born: “a vehicle that enables that design to come to fruition.”
Selkregg has provided program management on large-scale projects for leading companies across the world and has built program management companies including Rise and his latest company Ascent. Ascent has worked on projects as diverse as a major transportation infrastructure expansion program in Boston, Children’s Hospital of Chicago’s facilities master plan development and implementation, Sky Landing in Chicago, the first permanent work of art by Yoko Ono in the Americas, and a presidential library for Harvard College graduate Theodore Roosevelt. Selkregg and his team managed all aspects of the Harvard Art Museums project completed in 2013, which consolidated Harvard’s three museums and four research centers into a single, state-of-the-art facility.