Thomas F. Cooley was appointed Dean of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business in May 2002.

A noted economist, Thomas F. Cooley has been a faculty member at Stern since 1999 and is the Paganelli-Bull Professor of Economics, the chair of the economics department, and a professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has teaching and research interests in macroeconomics, monetary theory, and applied general equilibrium theory, and recognized as a national leader both in macroeconomic theory and business education.

Prior to joining NYU, he held faculty positions at the University of Rochester in both the business school and the faculty of arts and science, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. Additionally, he was director of the Bradley Policy Research Center at the University of Rochester.

Cooley is President of the Society for Economic Dynamics, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a member of the American Economic Association. He was an Irving Scholar and a National Science Foundation Fellow. His research has been supported by numerous government grants, the most recent being a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Cooley has received numerous awards for his teaching, co-authored two books, and has published papers in many scholarly journals. Recent publications include: "Financial Markets and Firm Dynamics," with Vincenzo Quadrini, American Economic Review, December 2001; "The Costs of Losing Monetary Independence: The Case of Mexico," with Vincenzo Quadrini, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, May, 2000; among many others. He was the founding editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics, and a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Monetary Economics.

Cooley received a B.S. in engineering science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the recipient of a doctorate, honoris causa, from the Stockholm School of Economics.