Kimberly Abbott is a global communications leader and former broadcast journalist with more than two decades of experience in news and nonprofit storytelling. She has spent her career advancing ideas and the people behind them to shape narratives and drive impact.

She began her career covering breaking news around the world as an on-air reporter, producer, and booker for CNN, as well as media outlets in Paris and Atlanta. That journalism foundation now informs her work with C-suite leaders, founders, and policy experts. 

Kimberly has led communications at organizations including the International Crisis Group, The Fuller Project, Women Moving Millions, InterAction, and World Learning, and has advised a wide range of mission-driven institutions. Her work sits at the intersection of foreign policy, global development, gender, and underreported humanitarian issues, with a particular focus on post-conflict contexts.

She has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the recipient of numerous fellowships in journalism and international affairs from the Radio Television News Directors Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Atlantik-Brücke German-American Foundation, French American Foundation, and others. 

Her career has also included time on Capitol Hill, in US presidential politics, and as an envoy and translator for the Centennial Olympic Games. A French speaker, Kimberly earned a Bachelor of Science in broadcast journalism from Boston University and studied French media at the Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse in Paris.