Following on from the appointment of Robert Faff highlighted in last month’s newsletter, the most recent professorial recruit for the department of Accounting and Finance is David Cooper.
Professor Cooper joined the University of Alberta in 1989 and is currently also Professor of Accounting in the School of Business there. He was Director of the PhD programme for the School from 1999 - 2012 and a Visiting Professor at Said Business School, University of Oxford (2004-2012). He is also an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University.
He obtained a BSc (Econ, Honours) from the London School of Economics in 1970, a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1979, an Honorary Doctor of Economics from Turku University in 2005, the Haim Falk Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought, Canadian Academic Accounting Association in 2005, a Killam Annual Professorship in 2008, the Kaplan Award for Excellence in Research (the highest research award offered by the University of Alberta) in 2010, and an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School in 2012.
He has also held appointments at Manchester, East Anglia and UMIST, and visiting positions at seven Universities around the world. He has extensive experience teaching on executive programmes in Canada and the UK and has worked with several community and cultural organisations. He has a strong commitment to the training of research students and junior colleagues, having organised and served as a faculty member of many doctoral and emerging scholar workshops and courses.
Professor Cooper has written or edited nine books and eighty articles and chapters in academic and professional journals. His work has been published in journals such as “Accounting, Organizations and Society”, “Administrative Science Quarterly”, “Organisation Studies”, and “Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal”. He is an editor of “Accounting, Organizations and Society”, Consulting Editor of “Critical Perspectives on Accounting” (which he co-founded in 1990) and is on the editorial boards of six other academic journals. In the last 20 years, his research has been supported by over $1 million in competitive grants. Currently, he is examining the development and implementation of strategic performance measurement systems in several multinational organizations, as well as the emerging systems of global regulation of professional accountants.