Black Writers Lecture Series "Invention in Black & White: 200 years of African American Patents"

Lisa Cook is faculty at the Kennedy School of Government, and Deputy Director, Africa Research, Center for International Development at Harvard University and was the 20022003 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She earned her Ph.D., Economics at the University of California, Berkeley with the Dissertation: "Three Essays on External and Internal Credit Markets in Tsarist and Post-Soviet Russia" and has held internships at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, World Bank, Salomon Brothers Investment Bank, and the Brookings Institution.