Karen Kornbluh

Karen Kornbluh
Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors
Incumbent
Assumed office December 16, 2014
President	Barack Obama Donald Trump
Preceded by	Michael P. Meehan
United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
In office August 12, 2009 – June 23, 2012
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Christopher Egan
Succeeded by	Daniel Yohannes
Personal details
Born	1963 (age 60–61)
Political party	Democratic
Education	Bryn Mawr College (BA) Harvard University (MPP)

Karen Kornbluh (born 1963) served as U.S. Ambassador to the OECD^[1] under President Barack Obama and as a senior official at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Federal Communications Commission under President Bill Clinton.^[2] She is an expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. Her profile in The New York Times focused on her efforts “Fighting for Economic Equality.”^[3] She is now Director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a think tank dedicated to promoting transatlantic cooperation, where she is also a Senior Fellow.^[4] She also currently serves as the Chairperson of the board of the Open Technology Fund. She was previously Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Nielsen, Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations,^[5] and a presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.^[6] She was a senior adviser to Barack Obama from the beginning of his Senate tenure throughout his 2008 presidential campaign.