Ruth Cohen

Ruth Louisa Cohen, CBE (10 November 1906 – 27 July 1991) was a British economist, who served as Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge from 1954 to 1972. Life She studied at Newnham College as an undergraduate in the 1920s. In 1930, she received a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to go to the US. She spent two years at Stanford and Cornell. On her return, she worked at the Agricultural Economic Research Institute of the University of Oxford, where she remained until 1939. She then returned to Newnham College as a lecturer, and became Director of Studies in Economics. In September 1939, the Second World War broke out. Shortly after Cohen's return she was called to London for war service at the Ministry of Food and then at the Board of Trade.