Faculty
Michael A. Cohen
Director and Professor of International Affairs
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the
International Affairs Program. Before coming to the New School in 2001,
he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced
Studies at New York University. From 1972 to 1999, he had a
distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of
the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from
1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President
for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty
countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on
infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development. He is a member
of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Panel on Urban Dynamics. He is
the author or editor of several books, including most recently Preparing the Urban Future: Global Pressures and Local Forces (ed. with A. Garland, B. Ruble, and J. Tulchin), The Human Face of the Urban Environment (ed. with I. Serageldin), Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s, and most recently, Argentina’s Economic Growth and Recovery: The Economy in a Time of Default (Routledge, 2012)and an edited volume, The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America: Impacts and Response, (Routledge, 2012). Other publications include articles in 25 Years of Urban Development (Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 1998), Cities Fit for People (Kirdar, ed., 1996), The Brookings Review, Journal of the Society for the Study of Traditional Environments, International Social Science Review, Habitat International, and Finance and Development. He has
taught at the University of California at Berkeley, The Johns Hopkins
University, and the School of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning
of the University of Buenos Aires.
Courses Taught
Evaluating Development Impact: Slums, Education and Micro-CreditInternshipThesis Supervision
