Alan Kotok is a
Washington, DC-based reporter and writer on technology, business,
and public policy, and managing editor of Science Careers, the
online employment, career development, and funding portal of
Science
Magazine.
Kotok has written or
co-authored three books, including the
Handbook of EDI, 2003 edition, published in November 2003 by
Warren, Gorham and Lamont, an imprint of Thompson/RIA. He is lead
author of ebXML: The New Global Standard for
Doing Business on the Internet and lead author of
Print Communications and the Electronic Media Challenge
(Jelmar Publishing Co, 1997).
Besides books, Kotok
writes for several technology and business magazines and Web
sites including WebServices.Org and XML.Com focusing on business and
public-sector applications. From 2001 to 2003, he served as
editor of the U.S. Techno-Politics
page on Suite101.Com. His magazine publishing credits include
Electronic Commerce World, Foreign Service Journal, ActionLine
(automotive industry), and Managed Healthcare Executive. Kotok
founded and serves as editor of ebXML Forum, an
independent online journal on the Electronic Business XML (ebXML)
standards, and Web site manager of Public
Diplomacy.Org.
Kotok previously
served with Data Interchange
Standards Association (DISA) as director of publishing, from
2001 to 2003 and earlier as DISA’s Director of Education.
He joined DISA in October 1999 as standards manager for the
OpenTravel Alliance.
Before joining DISA, Kotok served 10 years with Graphic
Communications Association (GCA, now IDEAlliance) as Director of
Management Technologies and then as Vice President for Electronic
Business. Before joining GCA, Kotok founded an export company
serving the U.S. computer industry and served 15 years with U.S.
Information Agency.
Kotok has a B. A. in
journalism from the University of Iowa, a Master of Science in
communications from Boston University, and postgraduate work in
Technology of Management at The American University in 1981-82.
An avid
runner , Kotok takes part in local and regional marathon and
middle distance running events.
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