Paul COOK

Paul Cook has been the Director of the Economics and Security Committee of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly since January 1997 and for many years was also the Director of the Research Assistant Programme. Since 2011, he has also served as the Assembly’s Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group.

Dr. Cook has a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University (SAIS). He authored the biography of the Italian intellectual, resistance leader and post-war statesman Ugo La Malfa, which was published by Il Mulino in 1999. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Rome from 1993 – 1994 and earned a Master of Arts degree in European Studies and International Economics from The Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), Washington,D.C. and Bologna, Italy. He has a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Cook teaches graduate courses on International Political Economy and American Politics at the University of Kent and Ghent, respectively. From 1994 to 1996 he was a Course Instructor in Post-War European Political and Economic History and Contemporary European Politics at Johns Hopkins SAIS.   From 1987 until 1991 Dr. Cook was a Fellow and Deputy Director for European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington where he wrote on European-American relations and the end of the Cold War.   He has worked for the Washington Foundation for European Studies and Beri S.A. a financial risk-consulting firm, and has published a number of articles on trans-Atlantic economic and security relations. He is fluent in Italian and French.

In his spare time, Dr. Cook is coaching both the Belgium national lacrosse team as well as the International School of Brussels.  He is also playing a Brussels-based Finnish ice hockey team competing in the Belgium hockey leagues.