Kathleen Corbet

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Kathleen Ann Corbet (born 1960) is an American businesswoman best known for her controversial tenure as president of credit rating agency Standard & Poor's from 2004 to 2007.

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Career

Corbet graduated from Boston College with a B.S. in Marketing and Computer Science and received her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[ verification needed ] At Boston College, she serves as aboard member on The Boston College Wall Street Council [1] and on the Board of Trustees of Boston College. [2]

Standard & Poor's

She served as president of Standard & Poor's (S&P), a subsidiary of S&P Global, formerly McGraw-Hill Financial Companies Inc. and a holding company of CRISIL Ltd. (Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd.) from April 19, 2004 to August 30, 2007. During her tenure at S&P, McGraw-Hill's shares soared. [3] She resigned on September 14, 2007 and was replaced by MHP executive Deven Sharma. [4] McGraw-Hill spokesman, Steven Weiss, said "Mrs. Corbet's departure wasn't related to criticism of its subprime-bond ratings."

She was seen as one of the key 25 people responsible for financial crisis of 2007–2008. [5] In September 2013 TIME named Corbet one of the "10 to remember". [6]

History

Corbet was elected as the vice chairman to Tom Ferguson for the Waveny LifeCare Network.

Corbet was elected as a Class I director of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc in 2022

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