Kimberley Farmer

Kimberley J. Farmer serves as senior vice president of The Washington Group where she plays an integral role in client and issue management. Ms. Farmer is involved in the firm’s business development, government affairs and maintains a special expertise in coalition building. She has experience in several key issue areas including those related to international trade, asbestos reform, health, financial services, real estate, agriculture, communications, technology and transportation. She currently represents two major foreign governments before Congress. Ms. Farmer started with The Washington Group acting in a dual capacity as director of research and as manager for the Coalition for the National Tobacco Settlement. The Coalition worked to encourage Congress to pass into law the settlement the state Attorneys General reached with the tobacco industry several months earlier. She then managed affairs for the REPAIR (RICO-ERISA Prosecuting Attorneys for Insurance Reform) Coalition with the purpose of promoting a sound Patients’ Bill of Rights on Capitol Hill. Ms. Farmer has also worked as a legislative assistant for The Evans Group, a small lobbying firm in Washington, DC. Kimberley joined Clark & Weinstock in 2009 through a merger with The Washington Group (TWG), the former lobbying unit of top-10 public relations firm Ketchum, where she served as Senior Vice President. In addition to her lobbying efforts at TWG, she also served as a key liaison to Ketchum in combined business development, public relations and public affairs efforts. Kimberley started her government relations career at The Evans Group, a small lobbying firm. She is a member of WITA (Washington International Trade Association). Prior to Ms. Farmer’s work in government affairs, she earned a M.A. in International Politics from the School of International Service at American University. Within a comprehensive program in foreign relations, she specialized in international conflict resolution and environmental policy. While in graduate school, Ms. Farmer worked in development at the World Resources Institute, a global environmental think tank. She earned her B.A. in International Politics with minors in Political Science and French from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University where she also was a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. During university, she spent a semester abroad in Strasbourg, France where she was awarded an internship at the Council of Europe. Ms. Farmer is a native of Massachusetts.