IFE’s Future Frontiers to host Ambassador Kornbluh

The Institute for Education (IFE) and IFE Future Frontiers program founder Naya Chopra will host the fourth event in its series with special guest Ambassador Karen Kornbluh. The date and location will be determined. The event is by invitation only.

ABOUT: Future Frontiers aims to bridge the gap in high school students’ understanding of future career paths by assembling diverse speakers. Aligned with the IFE mission to partner with various leaders and foster a culture of bipartisanship and civic engagement, Future Frontiers seeks to empower students by offering firsthand insights into various career and life paths. This program strives to equip students with the knowledge and inspiration to navigate their futures confidently.

Fireside chat Speaker Bio: Karen Kornbluh is a senior fellow and director of digital innovation and democracy initiative at the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to that, she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris during the Obama Administration. There she spearheaded the first global Internet Policymaking Principles, gained OECD agreement to provide open access to its data, and launched the OECD Gender Initiative. Kornbluh served in the Clinton administration as both deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Treasury Department and director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Federal Communications Commission. Kornbluh began her career as an economic forecaster at Townsend-Greenspan and worked in the private sector at various points in her career, including as a senior advisor to McKinsey and executive vice president at the global data firm Nielsen where she launched the Nielsen Foundation. Karen Kornbluh | German Marshall Fund of the United States (gmfus.org)