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Karen Croxson
UK Competition and Markets Authority
Chief Data, Technology and Insight Officer
Description
Karen Croxson joined the CMA in September 2023 and was appointed as its first Chief Data, Technology and Insight Officer on 2 April 2024. Karen is a member of the Senior Executive Team and oversees all the CMA’s work related to data, technology and analytics including Artificial Intelligence. This includes analysis of emerging technologies, how these shape markets, and the implications for consumers and competition, as well as the CMA’s digital transformation, harnessing data, technology and analytics to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the CMA’s work.
Previous experience includes:
Deputy Chief Economist at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she headed up the regulator’s scientific research programme, founded a new function integrating economics, behavioural science, and data science, and led analysis of digital markets and AI
strategy consultant and data science/AI leader at McKinsey & Company and QuantumBlack, advising private and public sector clients in Europe and the US across a range of sectors and topics, including strategic planning, advanced analytics/AI, and digital transformation
board member/advisor for several non-profits and academic programmes at the intersection of economics, technology and policy
Karen is also a former Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and holds an Honorary Professorship of Economics at the University of Nottingham.
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