Kevin Klowden

Executive Director, Finance at Milken Institute

Moderator

Kevin Klowden is Executive Director in Finance for the Milken Institute, where he is focused on leading efforts to address issues of economic mobility for individuals, workers, businesses, and populations. In this role, he is developing and leading programmatic efforts to identify key best practices and implement solutions to create opportunities for economic mobility. His principal areas of focus are on issues of economic opportunity and stability for veterans and their families. In addition, he has been focused on issues of economic mobility in the entertainment industry and the impacts of trade and investment flows on economic opportunity. In this role, he draws on his long experience and expertise with the Institute, where most recently served as Chief Global Strategist, focusing on issues of regional economic competitiveness, sustainability, technology-based development, and the modernization of trade. In his role leading the Institute’s Center for Regional Economics, he focused on issues connected to job creation, tech-based development, small business access to capital, and California's role in the global economy.