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Karin Janel Kimbrough | |
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 Karin Kimbrough in 2020 | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford Harvard Kennedy School Stanford University |
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| Institutions | LinkedIn Federal Reserve Bank of New York Bank of America |
| Thesis | Monetary union, real exchange rates and trade in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (1999) |
Karin Janel Kimbrough is an American economist and Chief Economist atLinkedIn. She serves on the board of directors atFannie Mae, and has previously worked atGoogle andBank of America. She was named one of the world's most Powerful Women in Business in 2017.
Kimbrough was an undergraduate student atStanford University.[1] She moved to theHarvard Kennedy School for her graduate studies, where she specialised in public policy.[2] Kimbrough was a doctoral researcher at theUniversity of Oxford, where she studied theWest African Economic and Monetary Union.[3]
During thefinancial crisis Kimbrough was Vice President of Markets at theFederal Reserve Bank.[citation needed] At the Federal Reserve Bank she worked on Vice President and Director for Financial Stability and Analytical Development.[4]
In 2014 she was appointed lead on Macroeconomic Policy atBank of America, where she spent three years before joiningGoogle as a treasurer.[citation needed]
In January 2020 Kimbrough was appointed the Chief Economist atLinkedIn.[5] Her vision at LinkedIn is to create economic opportunities for the global workforce.[6] She uses LinkedIn Economic Graph,[7] a digital representation of the global economy, for research.[8] She studies workplace trends and career opportunities.[6] She has spoken about the need for Americans to gain more skills inartificial intelligence (AI). She believes that AI will transform the majority of jobs and enhance job mobility.[9] Alongside AI, Kimbrough has argued for skills first hiring, i.e., selecting for competencies over degrees or institutions.[6][10] She has recommended that congress reauthorise theWorkforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, increase work experience opportunities and encourage state-wide skills-first hiring.[6]
In 2019 she joined the board of directors atFannie Mae, and in 2021 the Board atAllianceData.[4][11]
2017 Black Enterprise Most Powerful Women in Business[12]