Christopher Cooper
Vice President
Chris Cooper is a vice president in our Washington, D.C. office. He provides strategic communications and public affairs counsel to clients in Washington, D.C., New England, across the country and internationally.
Before joining Rasky Baerlein, Chris spent more than 20 years as a newspaper reporter, most recently for The Wall Street Journal as a national political reporter. During his 10 years at Wall Street Journal, Chris covered national politics, government, the White House, Europe and the Middle East, as well as the 2008 presidential election, following several Republican and Democratic candidates including Barack Obama.
After starting in 1998 as a staff reporter covering the oil industry, Chris was assigned to London as a general correspondent, and then, post 9/11, to the Middle East. In 2003, Chris moved to The Journal’s Washington bureau to cover the Pentagon and the Department of State. For two years, from both Washington and around the world, Chris chronicled the lead up to the Iraq war and its aftermath. Afterward, as White House correspondent, he covered the first two years of George Bush’s second term of office.
In 2005, Chris provided on-the-ground coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which provided the basis of his critically-acclaimed book, “Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security” (Times Books, May 2006). “Disaster” is currently in development as a mini-series for HBO Films.
Chris spent eleven years at The Times-Picayune, New Orleans covering politics.
Chris earned a bachelors’ degree in English literature from the University of Florida.