Richard N. Cooper

Richard N. Cooper is an American economist, policy adviser, and academic.

Political Career

Richard N. Cooper served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1961-63 as the senior staff economist. Between 1965 and 1966, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, and between 1977 and 1981 he was the Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. In 1990 he became the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where he served until 1992. Between 1995-97, he was the chairman of the National Intelligence Council.Richard N. Cooper was acting United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter for one day, May 3, 1980.

Academic Career

Richard N. Cooper has been Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University since 1981. Before coming to Harvard, he was an assistant professor at Yale from 1963 until 1966, when he received the Frank Altschul Professorship of International Economics at Yale University, which he held until 1977. In 1972, he became Provost, a position in which he served until 1974.

Education

Richard N. Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956, and then in 1958 he received a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and finally a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962.