Ann Wilson Cramer is the retired Director for Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs for the Americas at IBM. She is now a Senior Consultant with Coxe Curry & Associates.

Ann serves and has served on numerous local nonprofit boards, including the Alliance Theatre Company, CareerRise, Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, Learn4Life, WorkSource Atlanta, Woodruff Arts Center, Council on Foundations, WABE (Public Broadcasting Atlanta), Georgia Foundation for Public Education, and served as chair of the Search Committee for the Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent and the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Educated Workforce Committee. Nationally, Ann has chaired the Council on Foundations Public Policy and Corporate Committees, the Conference Board’s Business Education Council, the Executive Committee of both the U.S. Chamber’s Business Civic Leadership Center and the Institute for a Competitive Workforce and the United Way of America’s National Corporate Leaders Council. In 2012, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented her with its first Business Civic Leadership Achievement Award.

In 2020, Ann received the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s first Corporate Social Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award and Georgia Trend’s Georgia Hall of Fame. In addition, the Women’s College Coalition honored Ann and Marian Wright Edelman with the first WCC Women Creating Change Award, and Ann was one of five Georgia women to receive the first STEM Gems recognition.

Recently, she was recognized with Ann Curry and Ann Stallard as the YWCA Women of Achievement, and with the first Lifetime Achievement Award by the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Women Who Mean Business and listed among Georgia Trend’s 30 Years of Influence, and was honored with the inaugural ARC Harry West Visionary Leadership Award, the Metro Atlanta Chamber’s Leadership Award and Voices for Georgia’s Children Big Voice.

She has received the prestigious Dan Sweat Award from Central Atlanta Progress, Public Broadcasting Atlanta’s Sullivan Award, and was honored with The United Way of Greater Atlanta Women’s Leadership Award.

She has participated in Leadership Atlanta, Leadership Georgia, Regional Leadership Institute, is a member of Outstanding Atlanta, and is past president of the Junior League of Atlanta. Recently, she received the Woodruff Arts Center “Arts in Education” honor and the Communities In Schools Georgia “Lifetime Friend to Education” award.

Ann is a graduate of Salem College with a degree in mathematics, and received an Honorary Doctorate degree in Public Service from Clayton State University. In 1991, she received Salem College’s Alumnae Leadership Award. Ann and her husband, Jeff, are long-time residents of Inman Park and are active members of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. They are the proud parents of two adult children.