Megan Ortiz

Megan Ortiz serves as President of The Cohen Group, a global strategic advisory firm founded and chaired by former U.S. Secretary of Defense and Senator William S. Cohen.

Previously, Ms. Ortiz served as The Cohen Group’s Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2022. Before that, she managed multiple client engagements for the firm in defense, healthcare, technology, and other sectors, and helped clients to build and execute business development strategies in the US, the Middle East, and Asia.

She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Child Research Center, is a member of the advisory board for the Global Forum for Freedom and Justice, and has been a Women’s Global Leadership Fellow and a Strategy and Statecraft Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.