abby joseph cohen the influential investment strategist known in the 1990s for her bullish stock market forecasts says she didn’t intend to be a role model but finds it “really very special” that some view her as one cohen who began her career as an economist at the federal reserve board joined goldman sachs group in 1990 and was named a partner in 1998 in january she stepped down as advisory director and senior investment strategist at goldman to join columbia university as a professor in the graduate business school there she teaches its popular “future of the global economy” course which examines current and expected challenges that will be faced by the global economy 100 most influential women in us finance “i had been building up to this change for a while” she says she had been an adjunct professor at the business school and has taught the course since 2014 she continues to share her views on the economy and financial markets with government policy makers and regulators and she speaks frequently with longtime clients she says she is also a member of the barron’s roundtable and this marks her third time on the barron’s 100 most influential women in us finance list john r allen president of the brookings institution where cohen serves on the board executive committee says “abby has brought deep experience and wisdom to brookings”