Glenn E. Sumners, DBA, CIA, CFE
Director, Center for Internal Auditing
Louisiana State University

Glenn Sumners is on the faculty of Louisiana State University where he teaches internal auditing in the Center for Internal Auditing.  Prior to receiving his DBA at the University of Tennessee, he received a BS and MA from the University of Alabama.

Sumners has over ten years professional experience in industry, consulting, and public accounting.  This experience includes three years as the controller of ESP.

Sumners has authored two IIA Monographs, “Developing the Internal Auditor’s Leadership Skills” and “Conducting Internal Audit Interviews.”  In addition, he has authored articles in Managerial Auditing Journal, Auditing:  A Journal of Practice and Theory, Internal Auditing, Internal Auditor and others.  He serves on the Internal Auditor Editorial Advisory Board, AHIA Editorial Committee, the Managerial Auditing Journal Editorial Team, and the editorial team of the International Journal of Auditing.

He is the director of the Louisiana State University Center for Internal Auditing.  He was named Educator-of-the-Year in 1987 by the IIA and received the LCPA Lifetime Achievement in Accounting Education Award in 1999.  In 2006, he received the Bradford Cadmus Memorial Award.  Sixteen students from the LSUCIA Program have won international awards for the highest score on the CIA exam. In 2002 an LSUCIA student received the CIA "Gold Medal". He received the 2001 CIA Academic Outreach International Award. In 2003 LSUCIA received the AHIA Institution Award. He currently serves as the IIA's Consulting Professor for Academic Relations.

In the last 20 years, Sumners had made over 1,100 presentations to companies, organizations, and IIA Chapters.  This list includes numerous CIA exam reviews.  In addition, he provides quality assurance and consulting services to internal audit departments and audit committees. 

Lydia Lafleur
Assistant Director, Center for Internal Auditing
Louisiana State University

Biography coming soon....

Cynthia Cooper
Chairperson, Center for Internal Auditing Advisory Board
Louisiana State University

  Cynthia Cooper is most well-known for her role in uncovering the corporate fraud at WorldCom - to date the largest corporate fraud in history.  She was named one of Time Magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year after detecting and reporting the fraud.  Cooper was inducted to the 2004 AICPA Hall of Fame, and is the first woman to receive this distinction.  Along with Senator Sarbanes, Representative Oxley and Sherron Watkins, Cooper was awarded the 2003 Maria & Sidney E. Rolfe Award by the Women's Economic Round Table.  This award was presented to Cooper due to her contributions to educating the public about economics, business and finance.  Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professinoalism and ethics in accounting practice or education.  Cooper is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award and the first woman to receive the award.  Cooper is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Georgia, a Certified Information Systems Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner.  Cooper previously served on the Accounting Advisory Board for the University of Alabama, and currently serves as the Chairperson for the Louisiana State University Center for Internal Auditing Advisory Board.  She 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 and moral leadership.  Cooper is also the author of Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower (February 2008, John Wiley & Sons).  She resides in Mississippi with her husband Lance Cooper and their two daughters.

D. Larry Crumbley, Ph.D, CPA, CFFA, CrFA, FCPA
Department of Accounting
Louisiana State University

  Larry Crumbley is on the faculty of Louisiana State University where he teaches a fraud & forensic accounting course and taxation courses. He received his MS and PhD degrees from LSU. Professor Crumbley is the author of more than 50 books, including Forensic and Investigative Accounting, 3rd Edition, with Commerce Clearing House. He created and has been the editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting since 1999, and he has been the editor of the Oil, Gas & Energy Quarterly for more than 30 years. He has 12 educational novels, some with the main character of a forensic accountant or internal auditor. His novel, The Big R: A Forensic Accounting Action Adventure, stars an internal auditor of the New York Yankees. He recieved the LCPA Lifetime Acheivement in Accounting Education Award in 2007. A frequent speaker in the U.S. and internationally on forensic accounting and litigation services, he was the speaker of the 66th Annual Research Lecture, University of Melbourne, Australia in 2005, and he was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury (N.Z.) in 2007. He is the current chair of the Teaching and Curriculum section of the American Accounting Association, and the founder of the American Taxation Association.

Carlos A. Thomas
Diversity Recruiter, Center for Internal Auditing
Louisiana State University

  Carlos Thomas is a doctoral candidate in the department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences at LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business where he is completing his dissertation on the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation on the IT function in organizations. His first doctorate is in Public Administration from Tennessee State University. He also holds an MS in information systems and decision sciences from LSU and an MA in sociology from the University of  Memphis. He received his BS From Vanderbilt University.