Susan M. Cosper was appointed to the FASB as a Board member effective May 1, 2019 and currently serves as the Board Liaison to the Private Company Council. Ms. Cosper has more than 30 years of diverse financial reporting and auditing experience. From 2011 to 2019 she was the FASB Technical Director and Chairman of the Emerging Issues Task Force. In that role, Ms. Cosper had the responsibility for managing all FASB's technical projects and activities. During her tenure, she had the privilege of overseeing the staff work on some of the most challenging and important projects the FASB has addressed in recent times including comprehensive changes to the accounting for financial instruments (including credit losses and hedge accounting), lease accounting, and revenue recognition. Prior to her appointment at the FASB, she was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), most recently based in PwC's Financial Instruments, Structured Products, and Real Estate Group in New York City and prior to that PwC offices in Florham Park, NJ (National Office), Pittsburgh, PA and London, UK. She earned her B.S. in accounting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a certified public accountant in the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.