Gary Cohn

Mr. Gary Cohn is the vice chairman of IBM and the former director of the United States National Economic Council. From January 2017 to April 2018, Mr. Cohn worked as the assistant to President Donald J. Trump for economic policy, director of the National Economic Council, and as chief economic advisor to the president. Mr. Cohn managed the coordination of the president’s domestic and global economic policy agenda and led the administration-wide effort to successfully pass the historic Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

In 1990, Mr. Cohn began a distinguished career in finance at the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. His titles included global co-head of the equities and fixed income, currency, and commodities division, and president and COO from 2006 to 2016. He was also a member of the firm’s board of directors and chairman of the firmwide client and business standards committee.