Thomas T. Kim is Managing Director of the Independent Directors Council. In leading IDC, Kim advances the governance, education, communications, and public policy priorities of independent directors on the boards of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and other regulated investment companies. Before joining IDC, he served as senior vice president at the Mortgage Bankers Association, where he led strategy, public policy, governance, and member engagement across the organization’s commercial real estate finance membership. Previously, he managed regulatory and policy matters affecting capital markets and mortgage investments as associate general counsel at Freddie Mac. Earlier in his career, Kim worked as an attorney at the Investment Company Institute. He received his BA, summa cum laude, from the University of California, Irvine; JD from the UCLA School of Law, where he served as a law review editor; and LLM, with distinction, from Georgetown Law School.