Kathy Kretman is the Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership. She also serves as Research Professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, where she teaches public leadership. 

 

Kretman has devoted much of her career to the development of leaders in the public and nonprofit sectors. Since 2001, she has created executive education programs that have attracted nonprofit and philanthropic leaders from across the globe.  She currently serves on the board of directors of the international Global Action for Children and the advisory board of the Foundation Center of Washington, D.C.

 

Previously, as an affiliate faculty member of the Corporation for National and Community Service’s National Service Leadership Institute, Kretman provided leadership training to AmeriCorps and VISTA directors.  She also served on the faculty of George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.

 

During her tenure at the University of Maryland’s James MacGregor Burns’ Academy of Leadership, Kretman directed the Civic Quest Project, a collaborative leadership education initiative between the University, the U.S. Department of Education and Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools. She was one of six educators invited by the Department of Education to identify “promising practices” in leadership education in schools and universities in the U.S.

 

Earlier in her career, Kretman advised chief executive officers on emerging social issues, philanthropy and community initiatives for the American Council of Life Insurance’s Center for Corporate Public Involvement. She has performed extensive research on issues ranging from community and economic development for Regional Plan Association in New York City, to discriminatory practices in federally-funded state and local programs for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

 

She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland, an M.A. in Public Administration from George Washington University, and a B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.