Brad Cook

Cook is a Utah native but as teenager lived in Saudi Arabia where his parents were educators for an international school system. He eventually graduated from Payson High School where he was a stand-out athlete in football, basketball, and track. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in international relations and a Master of Arts in the social science of education from Stanford University.^[1] He attended Stanford on a full-ride athletic scholarship where he was a starting cornerback on the football team earning him First-Team Academic All PAC-10 honors.^[2]

His first job was at the American University in Cairo as the Special Assistant to the President

He later earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Middle East studies from the University of Oxford.^[3]

From 1999 to 2006, Cook was the vice president of Utah Valley University for academic affairs. From 2006 to 2009, he was the president of the Abu Dhabi Women's College. From 2009 to 2019, he was the executive vice president and provost of Southern Utah University. He became the 17th president of Snow College in May 2019.^[4][5][6] He now serves as president of the American University of Bahrain.^[7]