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CYNTHIA COOPER
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In 2002, Ms. Cooper and her team identified the corporate fraud at WorldCom – to date the largest corporate fraud in history. Ms. Cooper previously served as the Chief Audit Executive for MCI until July 2004. Prior to joining MCI, she worked in public accounting in Atlanta, Georgia for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche. Ms. Cooper received her undergraduate degree in Accounting from Mississippi State University and her Masters of Accountancy from the University of Alabama.
Ms. Cooper previously served on the Accounting Advisory Board for the University of Alabama, and currently serves as the Chairperson of the Louisiana State University Center for Internal Auditing Advisory Board and the Mississippi State University Executive Advisory Board. She is also the author of Extraordinary Circumstances (February 2008, John Wiley & Sons). Ms. Cooper speaks to both students and professionals across the country to share some of the lessons she has learned and to emphasize the importance of strong ethical leadership. She has donated profits from her book to further ethics education for high school and college students.
In 2002, Ms. Cooper was named one of Time Magazine’s Persons of the Year. She was inducted to the 2004 AICPA Hall of Fame and was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in the November 2004 issue of Working Mother. Ms. Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. The American Accounting Association’s Public Interest Section recognized Ms. Cooper for her efforts to promote professionalism and ethics in the accounting profession.
Ms. Cooper is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Georgia, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner. In addition to her professional designations, she is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
She resides in Mississippi with her husband Lance Cooper and their two daughters.
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