Abby Joseph Cohen
Abby Joseph Cohen (born February 29, 1952) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street. She is a professor of business at Columbia Business School.[1] In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal, and she has been named as Barron's 100 most influential women in finance every year since the list's inception.[2] She worked at Goldman Sachs for many years, working as the firm's Chief Investment Strategist prior to March 2007 and then leader of its Global Markets Institute, before retiring from this role in 2017.[3][4]
Abby Joseph Cohen
February 29, 1952
David M. Cohen
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Family and education[edit]
Cohen was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Raymond and Shirley (née Silverstein) Joseph, emigrants from Poland. She graduated from Martin Van Buren High School in Queens.[5] Cohen earned a B.A. in economics and computer science from Cornell University (1973) and an M.S. in economics from George Washington University (1976).[6][7] She obtained her Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1980.[8] Abby is Jewish.
In 1973 she married David M. Cohen.[5] They have two daughters.
Civic works[edit]
Abby Joseph Cohen has served as a trustee of Cornell University[11] and the Brookings Institution,[12] and during 2009–2015 was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.[13] She and her husband have been supporters of the Jewish Outreach Institute, which helps to bring nominal Jews back into the Jewish religious community,[14] and of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.[15]