Elliot Schrage
Elliot Schrage | |
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 Elliot Schrage, January 2010 | |
| Born | 1959 or 1960 (age 64–65)[1] |
| Education | Harvard College, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School |
| Occupation(s) | VP of Communications and Public Policy |
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Elliot J. Schrage is an American lawyer and business executive. He is currently VP Communications and Public Policy at Facebook, where he directs the company's public relations efforts.
Personal life, education and early career
Schrage holds degrees from Harvard Law School (J.D. '86), the John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P. '86), and Harvard College (A.B. '81). He also studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Before joining Google, Schrage was the Bernard L. Schwarz Senior Fellow in Business and Foreign Policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. Schrage also worked at Gap, Inc. as the senior vice president for global communications.
Before Gap, Schrage worked as managing director of the New York office of Clark & Weinstock, a public policy and management consulting firm. Since 1990, Schrage has also served as adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School and Columbia Law School.
Work at Google
On October 31, 2005 it was announced that Schrage had joined Google as Vice President, Global Communications and Public Affairs.[1] Upon joining Google, Schrage inherited the company's controversy regarding censoring search results in China.[citation needed] On February 15, 2006, he testified in front of the United States House Committee on International Relations on behalf of Google on the subject of Internet in the People's Republic of China.[2]
Facebook and criticism
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On May 12, 2010 The New York Times published a Q&A with Schrage, where he answered readers' questions.[3] The interview was largely panned and negatively rated in the press, with Schrage attracting criticism for his poor handling of Facebook's increasingly unpopular privacy policies. Pulitzer-Prize winning writer John McQuaid called him "infuriating... [and] condescending.[4]"
References
- ^ a b "Google Names Elliot Schrage Vice President of Global Communications and Public Affairs" (Press release). Google. October 31, 2005.
- ^ Testimony of Google Inc. before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, and the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations, Google, February 15, 2006
- ^ Facebook executive answers readers' questions, The New York Times, May 12, 2010
- ^ Why BP = Facebook, The Huffington Post, May 13, 2010