William "Wil" Zemp is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and the recipient of four Bronze Stars and two Purple Hearts. Over a 25-year military career, he held senior assignments at the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, and NATO, working at the intersection of national security strategy, alliance leadership, and emerging technology.
Today, Mr. Zemp serves as Executive Director of Executive and Professional Education at The Citadel — The Military College of South Carolina, where he was recruited to establish a new revenue-generating enterprise within the Krause School of Leadership and Ethics. His mandate centers on building executive and professional education for the defense, government, and national-security sectors, designing a curriculum that blends rigorous leadership development with applied innovation.
He is a member of the Global Advisory Council of the AI 2030 Institute, where he focuses on responsible AI workforce development, credentialing, and governance, and on the cross-sector collaboration needed to keep the nation strong and competitive in an AI-enabled economy.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Zemp served as Global Director of Education to Workforce at Amazon Web Services, leading an education-to-workforce strategy across more than 80 countries. He built a unified global skills ecosystem integrating learning, credentialing, and workforce initiatives, and advised senior corporate leadership on workforce strategy and digital-skills policy.