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Marianne Cooper, Ph.D., is a sociologist, speaker, writer, and expert adviser. She is a senior research scholar at Stanford University’s VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab and an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality. Dr. Cooper was the lead researcher for Sheryl Sandberg’s NYT best-seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and she is an author on all of the Lean In & McKinsey Women in the Workplace reports.

Dr. Cooper is an expert on gender, women’s leadership, diversity and inclusion, the future of work, financial insecurity, and economic inequality. Her book, Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times, examines how families are coping in an insecure age. A LinkedIn influencer, she has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, CNN, and Politico among others. Dr. Cooper is a frequent public speaker, most recently at TEDx, the NYT New Rules Summit, Fortune MPW Next Gen, Adobe, Sony, and more.

Dr. Cooper is a senior advisor to McKinsey & Company and an impact leader for Politico’s Women Rule, and an affiliated educator for the Center for Institutional Courage. She is also an advisor to the Cartier sponsored Women’s Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai, which celebrates women change agents and seeks to inspire stakeholders to create a better future for women.

Dr. Cooper received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Advisory roles:

• Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company

• Impact Leader for Politico’s Women Rule

• Advisor to the Cartier sponsored Women’s Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai

• Affiliated educator, Center for Institutional Courage