1952-
Chief Market Strategist, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Substance Over Style.

Born in Queens, New York, in 1952 to a Polish-immigrant mother and a father whose parents had come from Poland in 1913, Abby Joseph Cohen received a B.A. in economics and computer science from Cornell University in 1973 and an M.S. in economics from George Washington University in 1976. In 1973 she married David M. Cohen, director of labor and employee relations at Columbia University. Since 1983, when they moved back to New York from Baltimore, where Cohen had been working for T. Rowe Price Associates Inc., she and her family have lived in the same Queens neighborhood where Cohen grew up. She commutes to work on the bus. "We are not a Wall Street family," she says, "a Wall Street career is not the end-all and be-all for us." Cohen began her career in the mid 1970s as...