Deborah M Cooper is president and founder of an independent consulting firm specializing in Cybersecurity and has served on many Industry and USA Government advisory boards and panels. Past positions include Director, Unisys Government Systems, INFOSEC Business Development and Program Planning, Unisys Government Systems Director of Advanced Technology, Director of Formal Methods at Unisys and System Development Corporation, and Principal, Cyber Technology at Booz Allen Hamilton. Cooper graduated with honors from UCLA.  While studying for her doctorate, Cooper created a database management system adopted for use at all University of California campuses and was awarded a University of California Administrative Fellowship. In 1989, she received the Unisys President’s Award for Technical Excellence.

Deborah Cooper is 2022 President of IEEE-USA and has served as IEEE Computer Society 2006 president, Division Director V on the IEEE Board of Directors, MGA Treasurer, and past member of the Boards of IEEE-USA, Membership and Geographic Activities, Technical Activities, Publication Services and Products, past guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and IEEE Software, and editorial board member for IEEE Security & Privacy.  Cooper has been an active IEEE volunteer for over 35 years, a member of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) since its inception and served on the WIE Committee 2007-8 and 2014-15.

Cooper is known for her commitment to our members and dedicated volunteers, her collegial and innovative leadership, and producing results. Her presidential initiative as 2006 Computer Society president focused on outreach to underserved demographics within IEEE, which she chose to bring back by popular demand as IEEE-USA 2022 President. There is much more work to be done.