Jonathan L. Cohen

National Trustee
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Jon became a senior director on July 1, 2016 of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He became an advisory director after the firm’s initial public offering in 1999. Previously, he had been a limited partner and consultant since 1997. Jon has advised senior management on long-term human resources issues. He was director of Personnel from 1990 to 1995.

Jon began working on issues involving the professional staff in 1984, the year he was named partner. Prior to that, he was in administration for the Investment Banking Division and worked in the Executive Office. Jon was founder and chairman of the Charitable Contributions Committee and a member of the Partner Practices Committee, a predecessor of the Partnership Committee.

Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1969, Jon was an assistant vice president at Irving Trust and had been a lieutenant in the US Navy.

Jon is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of the Wildlife Conservation Society, a member of the President’s Leadership Council at Dartmouth, a trustee of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Florence Griswold Museum, and a member of the Visiting Committee of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a former elder of the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York.

In 2002, the Board of Overseers of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration awarded Jon its Overseers Medal and in 2007 he received the Dartmouth Alumni Award. He is a former chairman and member of the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School and the Hood Museum of Art. Jon has headed Tuck Annual Giving and a Tuck capital campaign and served as a member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council. He is a former trustee of Oberlin College, Friends Seminary, and the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York.

Jon earned an MBA from Tuck in 1961 and an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth in 1960. He lives in New York City and is married to Allison Morrow and has two children, Gregory and Suzanne.


About PAFA

Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the United States’ first school and museum of fine arts. A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, PAFA offers a world-class collection of American art, innovative exhibitions of historic and contemporary American art, and educational opportunities in the fine arts. The PAFA Museum aims to tell America's diverse story through art, expanding who has been included in the canon of art history through its collections, exhibitions, and public programs, while classes educate artists and appreciators with a deep understanding of traditions and the ability to challenge conventions. PAFA’s esteemed alumni include Mary Cassatt, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, William Glackens, Barkley L. Hendricks, Violet Oakley, Louis Kahn, David Lynch, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.