Biography

Dr. William F. Carroll, Jr. holds a B.A. in Chemistry and Physics from DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, an M.S. from Tulane University in New Orleans, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN,. Bill started his industry career in 1978 and after a year with Rohm and Haas Company, Bristol, PA, moved to what is now Occidental Chemical Corporation. He is currently Vice President, Chlorovinyl Issues for OxyChem and works on public policy issues and communications related to chlorine and PVC. He is also Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana where he teaches polymer chemistry.

Bill is Immediate Past President (2006) of the American Chemical Society, a member of the ACS Budget and Finance Committee, Chair of its Compensation Committee and past chair of its International Activities Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the US National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and a member of the National Academy’s Chemical Sciences Roundtable. He is chair of the Science Advisory Board for DePauw University and a member of the Visiting Committee for the Chemistry and Geochemistry Departments at Colorado School of Mines.

He has also chaired numerous committees for a variety of chemistry, plastics, fire protection and recycling organizations. He has served on expert groups commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Program, the US Environmental Protection Agency and two states. He received the Vinyl Institute’s Roy T. Gottesman Leadership Award for lifetime achievement in 2000.

He holds two patents, and has over forty-five publications in the fields of organic electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, combustion chemistry and physics, incineration, plastics recycling and chlorine issues.