Gary D. Cohn is a managing director and partner of Goldman Sachs. He has also financed the Gary D. Cohn Endowed Research Professorship in Finance at American University, his alma mater. Managing director is the traditional term for the top executive of a business in the United Kingdom and some other English speaking countries, but not in the United States. ... A partner is: a domestic partner. ... The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ... American University is a fully accredited and internationally known private coeducational university located at Ward Circle, straddling the Spring Valley and American University Park areas of Northwest Washington, DC. It currently has roughly 5,000 undergraduate students, and approximately the same number of graduate students. ...