Dr. Kathy Hopinkah Hannan is the National President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Girl Scouts of the USA. Dr. Hannan, a retired Global Lead Partner, National Managing Partner, and Vice Chairman of KPMG, has more than 30 years of industry experience and has held numerous leadership roles during her distinguished career with KPMG. Immediately prior to her 2018 retirement, Dr. Hannan served as Global Lead Partner, Senior Advisor for KPMG’s Board Leadership Center and National Leader Total Impact Strategy, providing advice and direction on leading Board governance practices and guiding the strategic direction of corporations throughout the U.S. Dr. Hannan also served as the Midwest Area Managing Partner for KPMG’s Tax Services — the first woman to be named to such a position at KPMG. Subsequent to that role, Dr. Hannan was appointed as the National Managing Partner of Diversity and Corporate Responsibility, a role that focused on providing strategic direction to leverage diversity and inclusion and corporate philanthropy for commercial sustainability. Dr. Hannan, having been a passionate trailblazer and advocate for women throughout her personal and professional life, also founded the KPMG Women’s Advisory Board with the objective to improve the retention and advancement of women in the workplace.
In addition to her roles at KPMG and Girl Scouts, as a Native American Indian and member of the Ho-Chunk Nation Tribe, Dr. Hannan served on President George W. Bush’s National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Currently, Dr. Hannan is a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Washington, D.C. based Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, serves as a Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development in Washington, D.C., and has recently been elected to serve as a Board Member for Annaly Capital Management, Inc. in New York, NY.
Kathy earned a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Political Science from Loras College and is a graduate of the Institute of Comparative Political & Economic Systems at Georgetown University. She is also a graduate of the Chicago Management Institute at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and earned her Ph.D. at Benedictine University.
