Jonathan D. Cohen

Jonathan D. Cohen leads AIBM’s gambling policy efforts within the Boys & Men Online program.

Cohen is a public intellectual and expert on gambling policy. He is the author of Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling (2025) and For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America (2022). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other publications.

Before joining AIBM, he served as a senior program officer at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he led a cross-partisan commission on the American economy and projects focused on American democracy. He previously worked as a financial writer and editor at Tiger Capital Group.

Cohen holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a doctorate in history from the University of Virginia. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and two sons.