Kimberly is a social anthropologist with a regional specialism of contemporary China. She holds a BA in Economics and Sociology from the University of Cambridge (2004), an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics (2006) and a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics (2012).

Her research expertise covers financialization and the anthropology of finance, economic and political subjectivities, commensuration and techniques of valuation, corporate ethicizing, economic decision-making, and epistemologies of economics.

Her first book, Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China, will be published by Duke University Press in 2018.