Bonnie R. Cohen

Bonnie R. Cohen (born 1942) was United States Under Secretary of State for Management from 1997 to 2001.

Biography

Bonnie R. Cohen was educated at Smith College, receiving a B.A. in 1964, and at Harvard Business School, receiving an M.B.A. in 1967.

Cohen spent the next quarter century in the private sector. She would eventually become an investment consultant to the Stanford University endowment; treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America's Health and Retirement Funds; senior vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; and investment chair of the District of Columbia Public Pension Funds.

In 1992, President of the United States Bill Clinton nominated Cohen as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget, serving under United States Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. and the Perini Corporation, a large general contractor. She has also served on the boards of several non-profits, including the Washington National Opera and the Posse Foundation.

Cohen is married to Louis R. Cohen, a lawyer at WilmerHale. The couple have a son, Eli Augustus Cohen, a daughter, Amanda Cohen Leiter, and five grandchildren.