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Bill Burger, Associate Vice President

Bill Burger oversees the university’s communications department, including news and communications, web strategy, publications, creative services and brand and identity management.

Burger's first career was journalism. He spent 14 years as an editor, writer and foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine, where he focused on business, economics and international affairs while working in New York, London and Tokyo. As the magazine's European Economics Editor in the early '90s, Burger turned his attention to the convergence of media and technology and the emergence of new economic models and distribution channels for content. Pursuing that interest, in 1995 he began his second career, in the information industry, first at AT&T, as director of new media development, and then as vice president of content and media services at Infonautics. That pioneering company introduced the eLibrary research service into the K-12 and consumer markets and became, after just a few years, the most popular service of its kind in the United States.

Over the years Burger has helped several companies launch new services for the consumer, education and business markets. Most recently, Burger was vice president of marketing for Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world’s leading provider of content licensing services for corporations, colleges and universities. There, he was responsible for product management and strategy, strategic branding and all marketing communications.

Burger holds a B.A .in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily. He is an active alumnus and has served on the board of directors of the Stanford Alumni Association. He lives in Andover, Mass., with his wife and their three children.