In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[157, 17, 177, 115, 219, 106, 124, 167, 210, 193, 171, 148, 242, 183, 236, 55, 11, 127, 165, 212], k=11
167