MAJ Rachel Kim

MAJ Rachel Kim is an Instructor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on economic growth and development, economic and financial statecraft, industrial policy and counter-threat finance. She graduated from West Point in 2013 with a B.S. in Economics and track in Systems Engineering and commissioned into the Finance Corps. She served as a Disbursing Officer in Vicenza, Italy from where she deployed to Romania and Kosovo to field e-commerce capabilities and Treasury backed-contingent accounts with regional banks in the Balkans theater. She then served as the Deputy Comptroller for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment and then Comptroller for the Special Operations Aviation Training Battalion at Fort Campbell, KY. She most recently completed 18 months of command at Camp Casey, South Korea upon which she returned home to NYC to pursue her Master’s in Public Administration at Columbia University, where she concentrated in International Finance and Economic Policy with a specialization in Data Analytics and Quantitative Analysis. CPT Kim maintains professional certifications in Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Defense Financial Manager with Acquisitions specialty (CDFM-A), Lean Six Sigma (GB), and SAP-ERP Business Founding and Integration. She is an active volunteer for the West Point Society of New York and the West Point Chapter of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).