Karen Kornbluh was born on 1963 and served as US Ambassador to the OECD under President Barack Obama and as a senior official at the US Department of the Treasury and Federal Communications Commission under President Bill Clinton.
18 Facts About Karen Kornbluh
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Karen Kornbluh is an expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families.
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Karen Kornbluh currently serves as the Chairperson of the board of the Open Technology Fund.
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Karen Kornbluh was previously Executive Vice President of External Affairs at Nielsen, Senior Fellow for Digital Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a presidentially-appointed member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
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Karen Kornbluh was a senior adviser to Barack Obama from the beginning of his Senate tenure throughout his 2008 presidential campaign.
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Karen Kornbluh worked for Senator John Kerry on the staff of the Commerce Committee and its Telecommunications Subcommittee.
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Karen Kornbluh next served as Assistant Chief of the Commission's International Bureau, helping to negotiate the World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications and leading negotiations for the first satellite agreement between the United States and Mexico.
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Karen Kornbluh became Director of the FCC's Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs in February 1997, while the agency was implementing key provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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Karen Kornbluh completed her FCC service as Deputy Chief of the Mass Media Bureau.
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Karen Kornbluh went from the FCC to the Department of the Treasury, where she was deputy chief of staff, working on such issues as e-commerce and international trade.
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Karen Kornbluh founded the Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation, having joined the think tank as a Markle Fellow.
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Karen Kornbluh has argued for a modernized social insurance system that would better meet the needs of "juggler families", which are dependent on the incomes of both parents or that of a single parent.
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Karen Kornbluh has published articles on economic policy in such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times and The Washington Post.
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Karen Kornbluh was a senior fellow for digital policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Karen Kornbluh was appointed director of the German Marshall Fund's technology program in November 2018, where she has been charged with using the organization's global, multi-sector network, reputation, and the sum of its substantive expertise to help shape a future in which technology strengthens rather than undermines democratic values.
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Karen Kornbluh was primary drafter of the 2008 Democratic platform.
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In 2015 Karen Kornbluh signed an open letter, coordinated by the ONE Campaign, addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.
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In 1993, Kornbluh married lawyer James J Halpert, for whom the character Jim Halpert, on the television show The Office, is named.