Ellis E. Cousens (born 1952) is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., since March 2001. Previously Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Bookspan, a Bertelsmann AG and Time Warner Inc. joint venture, from March 2000; Vice President, Finance and Strategic Planning, of Bertelsmann AG from March 1999; Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of BOL.com, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, from August 1998)