Marjorie Griffin Cohen is a feminist economist who is a professor emeritus of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University. She has written extensively in the areas of political economy and public policy with special emphasis on the Canadian economy, women, labour, climate change and labour, electricity deregulation, energy, and international trade agreements.

She was one of seven professors who brought a human rights case against the Canadian government for the discriminatory nature of the Canada Research Chairs Program. After a long, protracted struggle, this case was won and the main government research granting agencies are now required to distribute research chairs in an equitable way.

Among her books are Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries; Public Policy for Women; Remapping Gender in the New Global Order; Governing Under Stress; Training the Excluded for Work; Free Trade and the Future of Women's Work.
Professor Cohen has served on several boards and commissions in British Columbia and was the first Chair of the BC Fair Wages Commission. She was also instrumental in establishing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in B.C. and was its first Chair.
She has received several special awards including the Charles Taylor prize for excellence in policy research and the Galbraith Prize in Economics and Social Justice