William Echikson is Google’s Senior Manager for Communications based in Brussels. William is a veteran European correspondent, writing over the past two and a half decades for a series of prestigious US publications including the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and BusinessWeek.  From 2001 until 2007, he managed the Brussels bureau for Dow Jones as bureau chief.  He has considerable experience with EU issues, most prominently antitrust, trade and environment.
William has other interesting journalistic experiences.  He worked for a European newspaper, serving as editor-in-chief of Libération’s special international supplements during the mid-1990s.  He also has written, directed and produced for television documentaries for America's Public Broadcasting Service. He has published three books and is finishing the fourth one.
William graduated from Yale College with a Magna Cum Laude degree in history