Charlotte Kea (ICAP 2000) is currently retired and lives in Denmark. She most recently served as Senior Advisor in the Office of Gifts and Grants Management at the Peace Corps and senior advisor to ICAP. She is also the former President of the International Career Advancement Program Fellows Association. With over twenty years in government, nonprofit and corporate program and business development, Ms. Kea accrued a strong track record of results-oriented successes. These included securing over $19 million in assets, managing and implementing multi-country, cross-sector agreements, strategic planning and partnership development. With strong leadership, multi-cultural and communications skills, she brokered bi-lateral agreements with the governments of the Russian Federation, Mongolia, and Pakistan. She also administered business agreements in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Germany, and Italy among others. Ms. Kea has held senior consulting positions for corporate and nonprofit organizations, including working to establish Iridium LLC. She worked for eight years in the international divisions of US Department of Commerce, NASA, and the Congressional Research Service.

Ms Kea served as President of the Smith College Alumnae Association and as a Trustee of Smith College. She was on the Board of Operation Respect and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Smith College Club of Washington, DC. She holds a master’s degree in Soviet studies and global conflict from the University of Denver, Colorado, and a bachelor’s degree in French from Smith College, Massachusetts. She also studied at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and at the University of Paris, Sorbonne IV in France. Ms Kea speaks Danish, French, and Russian.