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Karen E. Wilson
Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation
Karen Wilson works as a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and is based in Europe, where she has been living and working for the past 10 years. She is also founder of GV Partners, a firm she created in 2004 to focus on entrepreneurship in higher education, policy and financing (venture capital). Prior to founding GV Partners, Mrs Wilson worked with a leading pan-European venture capital firm. Previously, she was part of the senior management team at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland and, before that, served as the Executive Director of the Global Initiative at Harvard Business School.
Mrs Wilson has served on a number of boards and coached many start-ups. She currently serves as an advisor and board member of the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER) and a member of the European Leadership Council for Harvard Business School. She received, with honors, a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.