William Echikson
Associate Senior Research Fellow and Head of Digit
Regulation
Center for European Policy Studies
Belgium
Biography
William Echikson, longtime Brussels-based journalist and public affairs veteran, heads the CEPS Digital Forum. For most of the past decade, Mr. Echikson has specialized in providing communications and policy support to technology companies and public authorities on Internet policy issues in Europe. He worked for six and a half years at Google, during which he worked on many of the search giant’s most difficult issues, ranging from the launch of the Chrome browser, the fight over Google Books and the battle over the Right to be Forgotten. Before Google, Mr. Echikson served for three decades as a foreign correspondent in Europe for a series of 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.
Research Interest
Digitalization
