Dr. Richard V.L. Cooper is a managing director at Houlihan Lockey Howard & Zukin, where he is responsible for the firms Transfer Pricing & Business Analytics consulting practice. He pioneered the development of Tax Effective Supply Chain Management, which continues to serve as one of the primary ways of integrating tax planning with business operations. Dr. Cooper is a nationally and internationally known expert in Transfer Pricing and has directed more than 300 transfers pricing projects, covering a broad range of transfer pricing issues and situations. His clients have included companies in a number of industries, but he has particularly strong experience with automotive, industrial, consumer products, and high tech companies. Prior to joining Houlihan Lockey, Dr. Cooper was a partner at Ernest & Young, from where he retired in 2005. Most recently, he was a managing partner of E&Ys Economics & business Analytics practice and before that he served as co-chair of the firms Transfer Pricing practice and director of International Business Services. Dr. Cooper earned his BA and MBA degrees, both in Economics, from UCLA in 1967 and his Ph.D. degree, also in Economics, from the University of Chicago in 1971.
