Michelle Rhodd is board secretary at DC Water. She manages and oversees the support functions for the Board of Directors, reporting directly to the CEO. She provides executive level assistance to the Board and ensures that the board’s business and activities are all effectively managed.

Adept at leading change to achieve organizational goals and serving as a valued strategic partner and trusted advisor to leaders and senior executives, Michelle Rhodd served as the special assistant to the president and assistant secretary to the Board of Trustees of The Asia Foundation for three years. While there, she assisted the President to oversee and manage Foundation-wide initiatives including the 2025 strategic plan and directed the work of the Board and its six committees.

She also served as corporate secretary at the National Restaurant Association from 2009 to 2016. There, she led Board Operations for an 80-person Board of Directors and for the organization’s Foundation —with a 35-person Board of Trustees.

Prior to the Restaurant Association, Michelle Rhodd was assistant corporate secretary for the American Red Cross. She also served the assistant secretary for USEC Inc. at its Bethesda, Maryland headquarters. She is the founder and CEO of Governance Advantage LLC with a proven record of directing executive action, piloting governance transformations, and promoting board relations.

Michelle Rhodd holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., a master’s degree in International Business Law from the University of Manchester in England and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.