Kathleen Ann Corbet is an American businesswoman.

Ms. Corbet (BS, MBA) served as President of Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for its stock-market indices, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian...

, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...

 Companies Inc. and a holding company of CRISIL

CRISIL

Credit Rating and Information Services of India Ltd. a global analytical company providing ratings, research, and risk and policy advisory services....

 Ltd. (Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd.) from April 19, 2004 to August 30, 2007.

Ms. Corbet graduated from Boston College

Boston College

Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...

 with a B.S. in Marketing and Computer Science and received her M.B.A. in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...

 and serves on the Board of Trustees of Boston College.

She resigned on September 14, 2007 and replaced by MHP executive Deven Sharma

Deven Sharma

Deven Sharma was an executive, and the president of Standard & Poor's, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, providing independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, and investment research. Mr. Sharma joined Standard & Poor's in 2006 as executive vice president, Investment Service and...

. She is seen as one of the key 25 people responsible for 2008 economic crisis in the United States.