President & CEO,
 Chamber of Shipping of America 

   

 

 

Kathy J. Metcalf graduated with highest honors from the US Merchant Marine Academy in June 1978 with a Bachelor of Science degree conferred in Marine Transportation and Nautical Sciences.  She also received minors in Business Administration, Oceanography and Organic Chemistry.  Upon graduation in 1978, in the first co-educational Academy class, she sailed for five years as a deck officer on crude oil and product tankers with Gulf Oil Corporation and Sun Company. During this period, Ms. Metcalf also participated in a shipboard/shoreside

management development program with both companies, leading to her assignment ashore with Sun Company as the Fleet Safety and Health Coordinator in 1983.

Ms. Metcalf served in various shoreside positions for Sun Company's Marine Operations Department and during this period, Ms. Metcalf attended the evening division of the Delaware Law School of Widener University leading to the conferring of a Juris Doctorate degree with high honors in 1988.

Her tenure at Sun Company's corporate divisions included the Corporate Health, Environmental and Safety Department, first as a managing consultant for regulatory policy analysis and later as a senior consultant for corporate oversight and assessment.  Due to her strong relationship with diverse business lines in Sun Company and her extensive experience with regulatory agencies including the provision of formal testimony, in 1993 she was elevated to the position of Manager, State Government Affairs for Sun's Midwest operations area.  In this capacity, she was responsible for the design and implementation of a proactive government relations strategy including interface with state legislatures and regulatory agencies, communications with diverse business lines including refining and marketing, terminals and pipelines and interaction with Sun's federal government affairs professionals.

In 1997, Ms. Metcalf resigned from Sun Company to become the Director of  Maritime Affairs for the Chamber of Shipping of America, a maritime trade association representing US based commercial shipping interests in international, federal and state forums.  Her responsibilities in this position include monitoring and development of positions with regards to legislative and regulatory initiatives and advocacy on issues of impact for the members of the Chamber of Shipping, before various organizations including the International Maritime Organization, the US Congress, and federal and state regulatory agencies.  In this capacity, she has testified before Congressional committees, federal and state regulatory agencies and has attended numerous sessions of the International Maritime Organization initially as the American shipowner representative on the US delegation to the Marine Environment Protection Committee and the Maritime Safety Committee and currently as the American shipowner representative on the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) delegation.  Kathy is also the Chairman of the ICS Environmental

Sub-Committee.

We look forward to welcoming Kathy and you at WISTA USA's Eleventh Annual Luncheon.