Kim Thai is the founder of KTT Consulting, providing entitlement and permitting advisory services including government and community relations to clients. She previously served as Director of Development at IQHQ, where she led East Coast development permitting and government and community relations for the company's life sciences real estate portfolio, entitling and permitting approximately two million square feet of development in Boston.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Thai spent more than a decade in Boston city government. She served as Special Assistant in the Mayor's Office and, at the Boston Inspectional Services Department, held the roles of Assistant Commissioner of Plans & Zoning and Director of Policy, where she advised department leadership on regulatory and policy matters. She began her public service career as Senior Assistant Corporation Counsel in the City of Boston Law Department, serving as legal counsel to the Inspectional Services Department. Prior to entering city government, Ms. Thai was a founding partner of Durrigan & Thai, LLP, a general practice law firm, and worked as an Account Executive at Bank of America.
Ms. Thai has a longstanding commitment to community leadership. She served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Vietnamese American Initiative for Development (VietAID), Massachusetts' first Vietnamese American Community Development Corporation, from 2014 to 2025, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Dot House Health.
Ms. Thai holds a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Western Military History from McGill University. She completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and the First District Court. Kim currently lives in Boston with her son and dog.