Karin Kimbrough is a managing director and head of the macro and economic policy effort for Merrill Lynch Wealth Management within Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM) division of Bank of America. In this role, she is responsible for providing economic and financial insight, as well as strategic analysis, to enhance and shape the team’s market views and deliver the best investment insights to advisors. She brings a wide range of experience in monetary policy, financial markets, and macroeconomics. Ms. Kimbrough has held various senior roleswith responsibility for financial and monetary analysis, quantitative research of asset valuations and macroeconomic trends.
Before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, she served as a director in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Markets group, where she founded and led the Financial Stability function. While at the Federal Reserve, she also managed the foreign exchange trading staff, the quantitative analytics team, and was a frequent author of reports on trends in asset valuation, financial innovation, leverage, and financial conditions. Ms. Kimbrough also represented the Federal Reserve on numerous key interagency councils and committees. Prior to the Fed, she worked for Morgan Stanley and the World Bank.
She earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Oxford, a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and French and English Literature from Stanford University.
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