From 1994-1998, Kathleen Corey was Country Director for the Peace Corps in Sri Lanka where she managed a program of 70 volunteers
Kathleen M. W. Corey - World Affairs Council of Seattle and Tacoma
Kathleen Corey has been the president and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Seattle and Tacoma for the past three years. Prior to joining the World Affairs Council, Ms. Corey lived and worked in eighteen countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern and Central Europe, Europe, and Central America. She began her overseas career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, West Africa and spent twenty years managing international and domestic management programs for the Peace Corps and the Center for Applied Linguistics, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit educational institution.
From 1994-1998, Ms. Corey was Country Director for the Peace Corps in Sri Lanka where she managed a program of 70 volunteers and served on the U.S. Embassy's management team. Prior to that, she held several positions from 1989 to 1994 at Peace Corps' headquarters in Washington, D.C. As the Deputy Director of the Pacific, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe Region of Peace Corps, Ms. Corey was responsible for Peace Corps entry into Eastern and Central Europe, as well as managing 34 country programs. She negotiated several new country programs for the Peace Corps in China, Bulgaria, Cambodia, and Bangladesh as Acting Regional Director for one year. She is the recipient of seven Peace Corps Outstanding Achievement Awards, as well as an Inspector General's Commendation Award.
