BARNARD
COLLEGE PRESENTS WOMEN 2000 - PROMINENT WOMEN IN
BUSINESS, POLITICS AND CULTURE - A NEW LECTURE SERIES
INAUGURAL
EVENT ON APRIL 17 WITH RENOWNED WALL STREET ANALYST
ABBY JOSEPH COHEN
March
23, 2000, New York, NY - Barnard College inaugurates
a new lecture series, Women 2000 - Prominent Women
in Business, Politics and Culture. The kick-off event
will be launched on April 17, 6 p.m. in the lower
level McIntosh Student Center, Barnard Hall (117th
Street & Broadway), with renowned Wall Street market
analyst Abby Joseph Cohen, who Business Week hailed
as the Prophet of Wall Street.
Cohen's
talk is titled The United States as an Economic
Role Model. Cohen, called "the most influential
market forecaster, period" by Wall $treet Week's
Louis Rukeyser, analyzes the transformation in the
U.S. economy, discusses what it means for markets
and the labor force, especially women, and predicts
the consequences of the United States becoming a
model for economies around the globe.
By
the late 1980s, many experts were convinced the
United States had lost its leadership role. But
in the 1990s, as Cohen put it, the U.S. became a
supertanker on course for growth. Spurred by changes
in government economic policy and improved corporate
management, the U.S. has now enjoyed the largest
economic expansion in history. Enormous investments
in technology and other innovations have allowed
growth in profits, jobs and the standard of living.
Abby
Joseph Cohen is Managing Director and Chair of the
Investment Policy Committee of Goldman, Sachs &
Co. She is responsible for the firm's U.S. portfolio
strategy. Prior to joining the firm in 1990, she
had been with Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1983-90,
serving as Chief Strategist in the last two years
of her tenure. Earlier, she was Economist and Quantitative
Research Director for T. Rowe Price Associates.
Cohen began her career as an economist at the Federal
Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Cohen holds degrees
in Economics
from
Cornell University and the George Washington University.
She is a Trustee Fellow of Cornell University and
serves on the Board of Overseers of the Weill Cornell
Medical College. She recently served as Chair of
the Board of Governors of the Association for Investment
Management and Research (AIMR) and as Chair of the
Board of Trustees of the Institute of Chartered
Financial Analysts (ICFA). She is a member of the
Investment Committee of the Museum of Modern Art.
In 1999, she was awarded the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
Cohen has made numerous television appearances and
is frequently quoted in the financial press. Cohen
was the 1997 inductee into the Wall $treet Week
Hall of Fame. She is ranked first in U.S. Portfolio
Strategy by Institutional Investor magazine and
by Greenwich Associates.
Women
2000 - Prominent Women in Business, Politics and
Culture is a new lecture series that provides a
unique platform for women leaders to share their
knowledge and experience with the New York City
business, political and cultural communities and
with the students of Barnard College and Columbia
University who will assume leadership roles in the
future. The series will honor the achievements of
women throughout the world by bringing a select
group of distinguished women to Barnard campus who
have made a significant difference in their fields.
Throughout
the year and into the next, other forums will explore
issues in global business, politics and culture
with women whose work is setting the agenda in their
respective fields. Other events that are planned
for 2000-01 are a media/entertainment industries
panel titled Charting the new landscape of media:
convergence and content (October 2000) with leaders
from the print, broadcast and film world; an e-commerce
panel with leading women in e-business; and individual
speakers in the arts and politics.
Barnard
College, a pioneer in women's higher education and
the most sought after women's college in the country,
was the first college in New York City to offer
a liberal arts degree to women. Barnard alumnae
include anthropologist Margaret Mead, writers Zora
Neale Hurston and Anna Quindlen, entrepreneur Martha
Stewart, and Chief Judge of the State of New York,
Judith Kaye.
For more information about the Women 2000 Series
and the other upcoming events, please contact the
Office of Public Affairs, Petra Tuomi, Associate
Director of Public Affairs, at (212) 854-7907 or
visit www.barnard.edu. -
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