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Kathleen Kemper, CEO
Shane Green
Morton Kondracke
Countess Cécile Pirzio-Biroli
H. E. Corrado Pirzio-Biroli
Robert Shapiro
Kathleen Kemper
George Sealy
James Valentine
Robert Hormats, PhD
Marci Robinson, Chairman
Gerard Baker
Christopher Caine
Charlie Cook
The Hon. Tom Daschle
The Hon. Tom Davis
Tom Friedman
Christina Ginsburg
The Hon. Jane Harman
Craig Helsing
Ed Henry
Jerry Jasinowski
James Kimsey
The Hon. Trent Lott
H. E. Jan Matthyse
Norm Ornstein
The Hon. Mike Oxley
Carter Pate
Beverley Perry
George Vradenburg
Judge William Webster
The Hon. Anthony Williams
Judy Woodruff
Kathy Kemper
-- known as “Coach” to many -- is founder and CEO of the Institute for Education, a non-profit foundation that recognizes and promotes leadership and civility locally, nationally, and in the world community. IFE also educates youth for global citizenship in an increasingly connected world.
Called Washington’s “Networker in Chief” by US News and World Report, Coach Kemper also founded INFO, a program of IFE. INFO is a roundtable public affairs forum that draws diplomats, influential public officials, senior media, and business leaders from both sides of the aisle for debate and discussion. INFO speakers have included Supreme Court Justices, a Vice President, Senators, Nobel laureates, Cabinet secretaries, Ambassadors, Governors, and a professional athlete.
A former professional tennis player, Kemper served as head Women’s Tennis Coach at Georgetown University from 1978 to 1990. She coached Georgetown’s No. 1 player to a four-year undefeated match play streak and to the Big East and NCAA National Woman’s Division II title in 1983.
Kemper is a sought-after speaker on issues from Title IX and gender equity to her unique, insider’s view of Washington. She has spent 25 years coaching tennis to Washington’s powerbrokers and opinion makers — hitting the courts with Supreme Court Justices, members of the United States Congress and United States Secretaries of State through four administrations.
Well known in Washington’s diplomatic community, Kemper has received awards and recognition from the Swedish and Chinese governments for her commitment to cross-cultural dialogue, friendship, and understanding. She has been honored by numerous organizations for her leadership, her commitment to promoting collaborative and global dialogue, and her philanthropic efforts.
She is on the Board of Trustees of the Washington International School and has been awarded numerous Woman of the Year honors from various groups. She was named the Prince Sporting Goods’ Woman of the Year and received recognition from the National Association of Women in Business. A frequent op-ed writer and columnist, her work has been featured in The Hill, USA Today, Roll Call, The Washington Examiner, The Bangkok Post, and Vietnam Daily, Hanoi Times, and Newsday.
Coach Kemper lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California and Washington, DC.

HE Sameh Shoukry, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt, IFE Leadership honoree Chris Caine, Mercator XXI, Coach Kathy Kemper, and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano at the 2010 IFE Leadership dinner.

IFE Trustee Robert Shapiro, Ambassadors Michael Wilson, Jon Bruton, and Dominique Strye de Swielande at the IFE/INFO public policy forum with Senator Chuck Hagel in the LBJ room of the U.S. Capitol

Secretary Michael Chertoff, Kathy Kemper, and Justice Samuel Alito, IFE Leadership

IFE Steward Judge William Webster and General Brent Scowcroft.

Morton Konbracke and HE Corrado Pirzio-Biroli