Robert Cohen Strategy Consultant and Associate Research Analyst Westport, CT

Robert B. Cohen, PhD, is a Strategy Consultant and Associate Research Analyst with Saugatuck Technology, with a focus on how new technologies are helping to reshape telecommunications, including the impact of enterprise cloud services adoption.

Previously, Dr. Cohen worked with the consultancies RHK and Communications Network Architects. His work on grid computing included chairing StreetGrid08, Wall Street’s conference on financial services. He also was a Steering Committee member and Area Director for Enterprise Requirements of the Open Grid Forum. Dr. Cohen is Deputy Director of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies and was previously a fellow at the Economic Strategy Institute, both Washington think-tanks.

Dr. Cohen pioneered using economic input-output analysis to forecast the impact of the Internet and broadband communications on the US and state economies. He developed New York State’s high tech strategy for Gov. Mario Cuomo and helped found NYSERnet, the New York part of the Internet. He was economic advisor to the President George H.W. Bush's National Advisory Commission on Semiconductors. He also advised the head of the European Commission’s RACE program on the creation of Europe’s Internet policies.

Dr. Cohen has taught at NYU’s Stern School of Business, the City University of New York’s York College, Cooper Union, and Columbia University. He holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the New School for Social Research and a BA from Swarthmore College.