Kiersten Barnet is the Executive Director of the New York Jobs CEO Council, a nonprofit membership intermediary focused on scaling market-driven workforce development solutions. The council of CEOs, including Jamie Dimon, Sundar Pichai, and Jane Fraser, are committed to hiring 100,000 low-income New Yorkers into family-sustaining jobs at their companies by 2030. Since 2021, the organization has hired 40,000 New Yorkers into family sustaining careers, including nearly 8,000 recent graduates from CUNY.
Kiersten previously spent 15 years at Bloomberg, most recently leading Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index (GEI) and reporting framework. Kiersten and her team successfully influenced hundreds of the largest companies around the world to measure and report new social sustainability metrics and enhanced the investment community’s ability to direct capital in a way that aligns with clients’ values.
Skilled at publicly advancing a mission, Kiersten has spoken at global stages including Davos and the New Economy Forum and was the host of Bloomberg’s on-camera interview series “Invested in Equality”. She is a member of the Women’s Forum of New York and is the co-founder and former steering chair of the U.S. 30% Club, a group of influential CEOs, including Warren Buffett and Larry Fink, committed to diversifying U.S. boardrooms. Kiersten currently serves on the board of directors of CareerWise New York, Washington and Lee Williams School Board of Advisors and the investment committee of Project Sunshine.
