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Lee KempLeR ’91, managing
and executive director of the
BlackRock Investment Institute,
received the 2011 Johns Hopkins
University Alumni Association’s
Distinguished Alumnus Award
on September 21 in New York.
The award honors alumni whose
personal accomplishments,
professional achievements or
humanitarian service typifies the school’s tradition of
excellence. Kempler has spent most of his career working
with financial institutions on a range of strategy, operations
and organization issues. A dedicated alumnus and
strategic thinker, Kempler undertook a thorough benchmarking
survey for SAIS’s Career Services in 2004 and
suggested strategies for improvements that have since
been adopted. In addition, together with Peter Flaherty
B’67, ’68, Kempler led the “Rolling Back the Future” strategic
plan for SAIS and has supported the school’s leadership
development program. In 1996, he also funded the
Myra and Jerold Kempler Fellowship to support a SAIS
student in recognition of his parents’ “loving support
each step of the way.” Kempler has hosted students at his
New York office during Career Trek visits and generously
shared his personal insights about strategy consulting. He
also serves as a SAIS Advisory Council member and has
been active in various nonprofit institutions in New York.
aims to promote diversity,
open-mindedness and
tolerance among children
while they learn English as
a second language. In 2010,
her project earned a prize
for best new business idea
and received several public
grants, including one from
the Human Rights Council
of the city of Reykjavik.
1989
After 18 years working for
the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees,
Victoria Akyeampong ’89
joined the United Nations
Population Fund as their
country representative in
Kigali, Rwanda, in August
2010. She finds advocating
for reproductive health
and rights of girls highly
rewarding.
Fermin Fautsch ’89 is
the chief executive officer of
the Southeast Asia branch
of Logica, a U.K.-based
global information technology
and management
consultancy company, since
2009. He is based in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. He previously
directed Logica in Sao
Paulo. His son, Dimitri, is a
freshman at Northwestern
University. Fautsch is an
avid golfer, swimmer and
diver and is currently learning
Mandarin Chinese and
Bahasa.
In May, President Barack
Obama appointed Alan H.
Fleischmann ’89 to serve on
the White House Commission
on Presidential Scholars,
a part-time appointment
that allows him to remain
engaged in public service
and continue his profes-
WHAT WE’VE HeARD
sional leadership roles as cofounder
and managing director
of ImagineNations Group
and as managing board
member of Albright Stonebridge
Group. Fleischmann
is a member of the SAIS
Advisory Council. He and his
wife, Dafna Tapiero JHU’91,
’92, are proud parents of two
young daughters. They live
in Washington, D.C.
Ted Osius ’89 represents
the United States as the
deputy chief of mission to
Indonesia in Jakarta at a time
of surging bilateral relations.
Osius continues to build an
enduring partnership with
the world’s third-largest
democracy. He plans to
return to Washington, D.C.,
in the summer of 2012.
In October 2010, The
Washington Post hired Holly
Yeager B’88, ’89 as its Middle
East and Asia editor. Yeager
formerly reported for the
Financial Times in both New
York and Washington, D.C.
Her assignments included
political coverage and the
weekend section. She has
also written freelance pieces
for O, The Oprah Magazine
and The Wilson Quarterly.
Yeager lives in Washington,
D.C.
1990
Jonathan Isham ’90 is
professor of economics at
Middlebury College, director
of Middlebury’s Environmental
Studies Program, and
in September, became the
faculty director of the new
Hassenfeld Center for Social
Entrepreneurship, based in
Middlebury, Vt., and Hartford,
Conn. He thinks fondly
and often of what he learned
in the SAIS Social Change
and Development Program
[now International Development
Program], under the
tutelage of retired Professor
Grace Goodell.
After a heavy global travel
schedule in 2010, Reuben
Jessop ’90 decided to localize
his consulting work in
Southeast Asia in an effort
to stay closer to family. He
focuses on Vietnam and
the improvement of its
local banks in which his
employer, the International
Finance Corporation, has
made equity investments.
He and his family live in
Bangkok.
Michael Waxman-Lenz
’90 founded International
Education Advantage LLC
in December 2010. The
company specializes in using
digital technology to assist
universities in recruiting and
retaining international students
more cost-effectively
and consistently. It launched
a number of digital media
tools and its Web-based
recruiting platform with
pilots in Russia, China and
India in July. Waxman-Lenz
resides in Beachwood, Ohio.
1991
In September 2010, Timothy
James Jennison ’91, a managing
director at Morgan
Stanley, was appointed cohead
of Europe, the Middle
East and Africa credit sales
out of the company’s London
office.
Feroz Hassan Khan ’91,
a retired brigadier general,
served with the Pakistani
Army for 32 years. This
included domestic and
international assignments
in the United States, Europe
and South Asia. In 2003,
he joined the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey,
Calif., as a visiting professor
in the Department of
National Security Affairs
and senior researcher in the
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