NEW YORK: Gary Cohn, tapped Monday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the White House’s National Economic Council, is second-in-command at investment banking giant Goldman Sachs, which he once hoped to lead.

Cohn, 56, has worked on Wall Street since the 1990s and is one the firm’s best known public faces. He makes frequent television appearances to talk about the health of financial markets and the global economy.

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