Carrie Regan is a media professional and storyteller with over 25 years of experience in story development, unscripted programming and international content collaborations.

She launched her career at National Geographic Television, where she spent nearly 14 years in staff positions in both story development and production.  Given that she’d spent the previous three+ years living in a remote African village, she was often tapped to organize expeditions to some of the most challenging locations around the globe.  She’s trekked into distant forests in Tanzania in search of chimps with Jane Goodall, searched for monster pythons in remote Congolese swamps and camped in locations ranging from the middle of the Sahara to the flanks of an active Guatemalan volcano.  In 2002 Carrie was part of the three-person crew that tracked down the “Afghan Girl,” subject of the famous 1985 National Geographic Magazine cover; the subsequent film and magazine story helped raise millions of dollars to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

As Vice President of Series Development at NGT she doubled the number of program hours sold within her first year and increased it each subsequent year, creating and/or overseeing the development of up to ninety hours/$20 million in programming each year that included hits like Monster Fish, Border Wars, Undercover History, Dogtown and Alaska Wingmen.

In early 2011 she launched Carrie Regan Media LLC, a media development company specializing in the creation of unscripted television projects, with clients that included Discovery Communications, National Geographic Television, PBS, and production companies in the US and Brazil.

In 2013, after relocating to Knoxville, TN, she accepted the position of director of programming with HGTV, where she oversaw such hits as House Hunters International and Caribbean Life and launched the popular home renovation series Fixer to Fabulous.

In 2019 she returned to her passion of working with international content creators.  She currently serves as Vice President of Global Content Production for the Discovery family of networks (which includes Discovery, HGTV, TLC, Travel Channel, Science Channel, Food Network and more).  Her role focuses on building high-quality, cost-saving opportunities for production collaborations across regions and around the world.

In her spare time she enjoys crafting novels that will keep readers feverishly turning pages long past their bedtimes.  Her thriller Your Last Life was recently optioned by Major Chord in partnership with Atlas Entertainment.  The Wine Forger, her thriller about an unlikely forger of high-end wine, was optioned by Zin Haze Productions, producer of the Alan Rickman-helmed film Bottle Shock.

Ages ago Carrie also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Guinea, West Africa, where she produced health education videos in the local language, Malinké, as well as a volunteer park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.

A recovering fitness buff and amateur triathlete, she’s an Ironman finisher, multiple marathon finisher, NASM Certified Personal Trainer and certified Spinning instructor.  She speaks French, can get by in Spanish and Malinké, and toss out phrases in several other African languages.  She’s a summa cum laude graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication.