Dr. Kathleen Cooper

Educational Qualfis.

PhD, University of Wollongong 1994; BCom (Hons), University of Wollongong 1984

Memberships/Awards:

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) (educator member)
CPA Australia
1999University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning

Employment History:

2002- present Director of Forensic Studies 1997-present Senior Lecturer
1988-1996: Lecturer
1985-1988: Teaching Fellow (Associate Lecturer)

Professional Development: (most recent)

ACFE pre-conference “Locating Hidden Assets” 15th Annual ACFE Conference, Las Vegas, July 2004
15th Annual ACFE Conference, Las Vegas, July 2004
ACFE post conference “Professional Interviewing Skills”, Las Vegas, July 2004
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), 14th Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill. 2 August 2003
ACFE pre-conference session “Vendor Audits”, Chicago, Ill. 2 August 2003
ACFE Australasian Fraud Conference ,”Conducting Internal Investigations”, Christchurch, New Zealand, November 2002
ASX Corporate Governance Guidelines Seminar April 2003Response to the Ramsay Report 2002

Professional and Commercial Activities and Presentations

1. ACFE Pacific Rim Conference: “Money Laundering: Crime of the 21st Century” Melbourne, Australia, November 2004
2. Special Advisor, Ernst and Young Indonesia Research and Development Project for the Indonesian Government October 2003
3. Presentations to Senior (Generals) Indonesian Police and members of the Indonesian Internal Auditors Association re the Master of Forensic Accounting and Investigative Audit Training Programs offered and conducted by the University of Wollongong
4. Presentation of Investigative Audit Introductory Program (2 week course) for Ernst-Young in Indonesia, May-June 2004
5. Attendance and participation at the opening of the Beijing Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention and first annual Fraud Prevention Conference
6. CPA Australia – Illawarra Branch Seminars Guest Speaker:

“Fraud Prevention” September 2004
“Triple Bottom Line Reporting” September 2003

7. CPA Educators Forum: “Accounting Education in a Changing Environment” (focus on anti-fraud and anti-money laundering initiatives) November 2004
8. Reviewer and author, CPA Australia Professional Development Audit Module 2004 and 2005