Kimmel has served as now Chairwoman Ramirez’s lead advisor on antitrust and competition policy issues in the high-technology sector since joining the Commission in May 2010. Before that time, Kimmel was in private practice in Washington DC, where she represented clients in a broad range of industries on antitrust matters, including merger investigations and foreign and domestic conduct investigations. Kimmel has both a J.D. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.