Stephen S. Cohen is a Professor of Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE). BRIE is an internationally recognized source of ideas and information on the interactions of technology, markets and economies. BRIE is one of the leading intellectual voices today on government policy and business strategy.

Professor Cohen has extensive experience as an international economic consultant, having worked abroad with the OECD, the United Nations, the governments of France and Denmark, and the Prefect of Paris, and the presidents of Columbia and Spain, as well as with several major European corporations. In the United States, he has consulted to the White House, the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, the House Banking Committee, the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and the Department of Commerce, and with several major and smaller corporations.

His most recent articles are "Is world trade held hostage by China?" (Le commerce mondial otage de la Chine?) in Le Monde Diplomatique, (1998) and "Form, Scale, and Limits in China’s Trade and Development," forthcoming in the Journal of Asian Economics. Professor Cohen’s numerous articles have appeared in such journals as The American Prospect, The Transnational Lawyer, Science, Foreign Affairs, The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Technology Review, Les Temps Modernes, Le Monde , and El Pais.

Professor Cohen’s books include: The New Global Economy in the Information Age: Reflections On Our Changing World, with Martin Carnoy, Manuel Castells, and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1993), Reading Our Times, ed., with Michael Boskin, Richard Darmon, J. K. Galbraith, (1988), Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post Industrial Economy, with John Zysman, (1987), France in the Troubled World Economy, with Peter Gourevitch, (1982), and Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model, (1969).

Professor Cohen received his B.A. from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. He has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1968. He has received numerous awards, fellowships and visiting professorships, including The Medal of Paris in 1975.