The Corporation of Brown University

Suzi Kwon Cohen

Trustee (2026-32)

Biography

Suzi Kwon Cohen, a Class of 1992 Brown graduate, is chief investment officer of Mousse Partners, the investment division of Chanel. Cohen is an investor and capital allocator with three decades of experience managing portfolios across both traditional and alternative asset classes. From 2005 to 2016, she served as a managing director and head of private equity for the Americas at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, an established sovereign wealth fund. Previously, she was a private equity investor at Quadrangle Group and Credit Suisse Private Equity. Cohen started her career at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and served as a trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust. She is vice president of the board of trustees and chair of the long-term financial sustainability task force for Phillips Exeter Academy, from which she graduated, and previously chaired the school’s investment committee. At Brown, Cohen chairs the President’s Advisory Council on Economics and is a member of the University’s Investment Committee.