Karen Mumford是一位专门研究应用劳动经济学的教授。她收到了澳大利亚国立大学（ANU）的博士学位。Karen的研究主题包括：工资票价;训练;就业动态;缺席;歧视与妇女的相对劳动力市场地位;网络劳动力市场;工作满意度;并影响使用家庭作为分析单位。 Karen has been the Chair of the Royal Economic Society (RES) Women's Committee, Convenor of the UK Work Pensions and Economics Group (WPEG), a Harkness Fellow and a Leverhulme Fellow. She is currently an elected Member of the RES Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). She was appointed CBE for services to Economics and Labour Market Diversity in the 2016 New Year’s Honours List.

她于2004年2月加入IZA作为研究员。