William Cook
Bill Cook joined AGU as Director of Publications in November, 2009. AGU publishes 12 journals and several books in the broad ranges of geosciences. He comes to AGU from the American Chemical Society, where from 1997 to 2006 he was Vice President for Finance of the ACS Publications Division. Prior to joining ACS, Bill worked for several other companies involved in publishing: Crown Books, a Washington, DC based discount retailer with over 160 stores in 6 states; Derwent Corporation, a subsidiary of Thomson Publishing; and Craver, Mathews, Smith & Company. Since 2001 Bill has served on the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Executive Committee of the Association of American Publishers, for the last several years as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee. He is treasurer of the Northern Virginia Swimming League, and works with the lacrosse teams at JEB Stuart HS and Marymount University as statistician and reporter.