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Ms. Karen KORNBLUH
Born in 1963, Ms. Kornbluh received a degree in Economics and English from Bryn Mawr College in 1985. She subsequently obtained a Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1988.
Ms. Kornbluh began her career as a management consultant to Fortune 500 manufacturing companies and as an economist at forecasting firm Townsend-Greenspan & Co. From 1991 to 1994, she was an economics advisor to Senator John Kerry. Then, from 1995 to 1997, she filled several roles at the Federal Communications Commission, including Assistant Chief of the Commission's International Bureau, helping to negotiate the World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications, and Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs while the agency was implementing key provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
In 1997, Ms. Kornbluh was appointed deputy chief of staff at the US Treasury Department. At the same time, she founded the Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation, where she was also a Markle Fellow. From 2005 until 2008 she held the post of Policy Director for then-Senator Obama.
From 2009, until her nomination as Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD,
Ms. Kornbluh was Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
Ambassador Karen Kornbluh took up her duties as Permanent Representative of the United States to the OECD on 23 August 2009.
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