An International Meeting of the American Accounting Association 2005 Annual Meeting August 7–10, 2005 San Francisco, California Come to the City by the Bay!

Theme: "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: A Three-Year Retrospective."

Cynthia Cooper

Wednesday's plenary speaker Cynthia Cooper is best-known for her role in uncovering corporate fraud at WorldCom (now MCI) — to date the largest corporate fraud in history. She was named one of Time Magazine's Persons of the Year in 2002 after detecting and reporting that fraud. Time Magazine has been naming its Person of the Year since 1927, and the designation is given to the person or person(s) who most affected events during the year. Prior to Ms. Cooper, Sherron Watkins and Coleen Rowley, the designation has been given to only four women: Wallis Simpson, Madam Chiang Kai Shek, Elizabeth II, and Corazon Aquino. Along with Senator Sarbanes, Congressman Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Cynthia Cooper was awarded the Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award IN 2003 by the Women's Economic Round Table. Recognized for her extraordinary contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance, Cooper is also a recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award of the American Accounting Association's Public Interest Section. Cooper served as the Chief Audit Executive for MCI until July 2004, and prior to joining MCI worked in public accounting for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte & Touche.

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