Kate Mattice, Executive Director

Kate Mattice (pronounced ma-TYCE] is a proven leader in empowering public sector agencies to effectively communicate their successes through performance management, financial analysis, legislative development, and strategic planning and communications. Her career spans more than three decades in the regional and federal government sectors, where she has led and built organizations of various sizes.

As the executive director of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC), she leads a team that manages over $350 million annually in regional, state, federal, and toll revenue funding for transit services supporting Northern Virginia, including the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. NVTC co-owns the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail and runs the innovative Commuter Choice program, which reinvests express lane toll revenues into transit and multimodal projects.

Ms. Mattice holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego. She joined NVTC in 2014 after 13 years with the Office of Budget and Policy at the Federal Transit Administration, where she rose to serve as the Deputy Associate Administrator for Budget and Policy. During her tenure, she spearheaded FTA’s role in several key initiatives, including three surface transportation reauthorizations, major interagency collaboration on transit-oriented development, and the launch of FTA’s transit asset management program.

See and hear Kate in action:

Interview with Paul Comfort, Transit Unplugged podcast (2023)
Interview with the Metropolitan Council of Governments “Think Regionally” podcast  (2022)
Interview with WGN NewsNation (2020)
Interview with Local DVM (2020)
Interview with WUSA9  (2020)
Interview with WTOP (2019)
Presentation for the Metro Board of Directors (2020)
Presentation for the Hillsborough (Florida) Metropolitan Planning Organization
(starts at 1:32:33 free registration required)