Heritage Foundation Leadership for America

Karen Campbell is a policy analyst in macroeconomics at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis.

In this position, Campbell will be designing and maintaining the center's several computer models of the U.S. economy. She also will participate in several projects for "Leadership for America," Heritage's 10-year national policy campaign.

Previously, Campbell was chief financial officer of the Chester, Pa.,-based ABC Lid Machine Co., and ABC Seamer Technologies Inc., where she developed the canning equipment manufacturing and co-packaging firm's accounting system, prepared financial statements and assisted in strategy development, among other responsibilities. She also was an economics instructor and research assistant at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Campbell received her doctorate degree in economics in 2008 from Temple , where her work developing a theory of entrepreneurship received an award for an outstanding dissertation. She also earned a 2004 master's degree in economics from Temple and a 2000 bachelor's degree in accounting from Houghton College in New York .

In addition, she is a certified management accountant and financial manager through the Institute of Management Accountants .