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  Karen Monaghan
  National Intelligence Council
 

Ms. Karen J. Monaghan was appointed National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues in November 2007. She is serving her second tour on the NIC, previously fulfilling the role of Acting NIO/EGI and Deputy NIO from 2002-04. After joining the CIA in 1985, Ms. Monaghan held a variety of managerial and analytic positions, including responsibility for global economic and energy issues as well as developments in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. From 2004-06, she served as Deputy Chief of the Economic Security Group in the Directorate of Intelligence.

Ms. Monaghan was a Visiting Intelligence Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (2006-07). She holds an MPhil. degree in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford University and an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Economics from Vassar College.