Lisa Cook

Extracted Attributes

• Born

  1964

• Education

  BA, Spelman College; BA, St Hilda's College, Oxford; MA, Cheikh Anta Diop University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley

• Full Name

  Lisa DeNell Cook

• Languages

  English, French, Russian, Spanish, Wolof

• Occupation

  Economist, Professor, Federal Reserve Governor

• Key Achievement

  First Black woman to sit on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors

• Research Interests

  Economic growth and development, innovation, financial institutions and markets, economic history

Timeline

• Born. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1964

• Served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard University (Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School) and Deputy Director of Africa Research at Harvard's Center for International Development. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1997-2002

• Served as a Senior Advisor on Finance and Development at the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of International Affairs. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2000-2001

• Served as a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2011-2012

• Served as Director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2018-2021

• Elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2022-01

• Took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for an unexpired term ending January 31, 2024. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2022-05-23

• Reappointed to the Federal Reserve Board. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2023-09-08

• Sworn in for her reappointed term on the Federal Reserve Board, which is set to end January 31, 2038. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2023-09-13

• President Donald Trump announced his intention to remove her from her role as Federal Reserve Governor, leading to a lawsuit by Cook to retain her job and a criminal referral to the DOJ. (Source: Related Documents, Web Search Results)

  2025-08-28

Web Search Results

• Lisa Cook

  Lisa DeNell Cook (born 1964) is an American economist who was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022. She is the first black woman to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve Board, she was elected in January 2022 to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. [...] Cook was a visiting assistant professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Harvard Business School from 1997 to 2002, where she was deputy director of Africa Research at Harvard's Center for International Development. From 2000 to 2001, she was a senior advisor on finance and development at the U.S. Treasury Department as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. She was a National Fellow and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford [...] | Lisa Cook | | --- | | Official portrait, 2022 | | | | | | Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors | | | Disputed | | | Assumed office May 23, 2022 Disputed: August 25, 2025 – present\ | | | President | Joe Biden Donald Trump | | Preceded by | Janet Yellen | | | | | Personal details | | | Born | Lisa DeNell Cook 1964 (age 60–61) | | Education | Spelman College (BA) St Hilda's College, Oxford (BA) Cheikh Anta Diop University (MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |

• Bio & CV | Lisa D. Cook

  Lisa D. Cook is Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University. She was the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College and received a second B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley with fields in macroeconomics and international economics. Prior to this appointment, she was on the faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Deputy Director [...] for Africa Research at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and a National Fellow at Stanford University. Among her current research interests are economic growth and development, innovation, financial institutions and markets, and economic history. Dr. Cook is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is the author of a number of published articles, book chapters, and working papers. She is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Economic [...] Research Society) Distinguished Lecturer and was recently named an Edison Fellow at the US Patent and Trademark Office. She is a guest columnist for the New York Times (Economic View) and for the Detroit Free Press and a regular contributor on CNBC, MSNBC, and NPR. She speaks English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Wolof.

• Lisa D. Cook: Professor of Economics and International ...

  Lisa D. Cook is Professor of Economics and International Relations at Michigan State University. She was the first Marshall Scholar from Spelman College and received a second B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley with fields in macroeconomics and international economics. Prior to this appointment, she was on the faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Deputy Director

• Lisa D. Cook - Federal Reserve Board

  Image 5: Governor Lisa D. Cook Lisa D. Cook took office as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on May 23, 2022, to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2024. She was reappointed to the Board on September 8, 2023, and sworn in on September 13, 2023, for a term ending January 31, 2038. [...] From 2011 to 2012, Dr. Cook served as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama. From 2000 to 2001, she served as a senior adviser on finance and development in the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of International Affairs. [...] Prior to her appointment to the Board, Dr. Cook was a professor of economics and international relations at Michigan State University. From 2018 to 2021, she was director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. She was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• Fed Governor Lisa Cook sues to challenge Trump's attempt to fire ...

  By Bryan Mena , Katelyn Polantz , Devan Cole Updated 8 hr ago Updated Aug 28, 2025, 12:11 PM ET PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2025, 9:42 AM ET See all topics Email Link Copied! Lisa Cook at a Senate hearing on June 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/File Washington — Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is suing to keep her job on the board, which helps set interest rates, after President Donald Trump said he was removing her from her role earlier this week. [...] Lisa DeNell Cook, nominee to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, testifies during a Senate Banking nominations hearing on June 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Cook would be the first Black woman to sit on the Board of Governors in its 108-year history. Drew Angerer/Getty Images video ‘It’s a genie you can’t put back in the bottle’: Economist on Trump targeting Federal Reserve’s independence [...] 5 minute readmin read Who is Lisa Cook, the first Fed governor a president has ever tried to fire? Aug 26, 2025 3 minute readmin read How Trump could give the Fed a MAGA makeover Aug 28, 2025 6 minute readmin read ## Most read - Why the absence of a common act of tennis sportsmanship led to heated on-court ... 3 minute readmin read - Police examine online videos, writings possibly linked to Minneapolis church shooting suspect

• Gender

  female

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  painter

• Date Of Birth

  1/1/1973