Richard N. Cooper

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Richard N. Cooper

| office = Chair of the National Intelligence Council

| president = Bill Clinton

| term_start = June 1, 1995

| term_end = January 1997

| predecessor = Christine Williams

| successor = John C. Gannon

| office1 = 8th Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

| president1 = Jimmy Carter

| term_start1 = April 8, 1977

| term_end1 = January 19, 1981

| predecessor1 = William D. Rogers

| successor1 = Myer Rashish

| office2 = Acting United States Secretary of State

| president2 = Jimmy Carter

| term_start2 = May 3, 1980

| term_end2 = May 3, 1980

| predecessor2 = David D. Newsom

| successor2 = David D. Newsom

| birth_name = Richard Newell Cooper

| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|6|14}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2020|12|23|1934|6|14}}}}

| death_place =

| education = Oberlin College (BA)
London School of Economics (MS)
Harvard University (PhD)

}}

Richard Newell Cooper (June 14, 1934 – December 23, 2020){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZcMgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Cooper,+Richard+Newell%22+AND+%221934%22|title=The International Authors and Writers Who's who|first=Adrian|last=Gaster|date=23 July 1977|publisher=International Biographical Centre|isbn=9780900332456|via=Google Books}}{{cite web |last1=Frankel |first1=Jeffrey |title=Remembering Richard Cooper |url=http://www.jeffrey-frankel.com/2020/12/24/in-memory-of-richard-cooper/ |website=Jeffrey Frankel's Blog |access-date=December 26, 2020 |date=December 24, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Aggarwal-Schifellite |first1=Manisha |title=Richard Cooper, cutting-edge economist, dies at 86 |url=https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/international-economist-richard-cooper-dies-at-86/ |website=The Harvard Gazette |access-date=January 10, 2021 |date=January 7, 2021}} was an American economist, policy adviser, and academic.

Life and career

Born in Seattle, Cooper graduated from Oberlin College in 1956 and received a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Marshall Scholar in 1958. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1962. Cooper was an assistant professor at Yale University from 1963 to 1966 and was Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics from 1966 to 1977. From 1972 to 1974 he served as provost.{{Citation needed|date=April 2024}}

Cooper served on the Council of Economic Advisers from 1961 to 1963 as the senior staff economist. Between 1965 and 1966, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs in the United States Department of State, and between 1977 and 1981 he was the Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1980/12/2/undersecretary-of-state-cooper-to-occupy/|title=Undersecretary of State Cooper To Occupy Joint CFIA Chair|last=Paul|first=Sarah|date=2 December 1980|work=The Harvard Crimson|accessdate=24 March 2010}} Cooper briefly served as acting Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter for a few hours on May 3, 1980.

In 1981, Cooper became Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. From 1990 to 1992, Cooper was the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Between 1995 and 1997, he was the chairman of the National Intelligence Council.