Gary Cohn
Before serving in the White House, Mr. Cohn was President and Chief Operating Officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2006-2016. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 and held a number of other leadership positions including the Global Co-Head of the Equities and Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division. He was a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and Chairman of the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee.
Mr. Cohn invests across the cybersecurity, block chain infrastructure, regulatory technology and medical technology sectors. He serves on the boards of Abyrx, Hoyos Integrity, Indago, Spring Labs and Starling and is the Chairman of the Board of Pallas Advisors.
Mr. Cohn has long been dedicated to advancing healthcare and education. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of NYU Langone Health and serves on the Board of Overseers of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. In 2019 Mr. Cohn was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.
Mr. Cohn lives in New York with his wife and three daughters. He received his undergraduate degree from American University in 1982.
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Unemployed Americans have been receiving extra weekly payments during the coronavirus crisis as part of the government’s CARES Act. Those benefits will end on July 31 or sooner in some states since Congress has yet to agree on an extension or second round of stimulus checks.
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