Biography
Karen Kornbluh
Permanent Representative
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Term of Appointment: 08/21/2009
to present
Ambassador Karen Kornbluh was sworn in as U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on August 21, 2009, and assumed her duties at the U.S. Mission to the OECD on August 23, 2009.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Kornbluh served as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress. She previously functioned as policy director in then-Senator Obama’s Senate office, beginning in 2005. Ms. Kornbluh founded the Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation, where she was also a Markle Fellow. Previously, she served as deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department. From 1994 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. She earlier worked for Senator John Kerry (D-MA) on economic issues.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Kornbluh served as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress. She previously functioned as policy director in then-Senator Obama’s Senate office, beginning in 2005. Ms. Kornbluh founded the Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation, where she was also a Markle Fellow. Previously, she served as deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department. From 1994 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. She earlier worked for Senator John Kerry (D-MA) on economic issues.
Ms. Kornbluh began her career as a management consultant to Fortune 500 manufacturing companies and an economist at forecasting firm Townsend-Greenspan & Co. She received a Masters from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College.
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