- Elliot Schrage
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.Education and Early career
Schrage attended
Harvard Law School , theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government , andHarvard College . He also studied atÉcole Normale Superieure 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, Elliot has also served as adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School and Columbia Law School.
Work at Google
Upon joining Google, Schrage inherited the company's controversy regarding censoring search results in China. He testified in front of the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 15, 2006.
Personal life
Schrage married Juliet H. Whitcomb on June 3, 1995 at the Somerset Club in Boston.
Schrage has a brother, Michael Schrage, who is a research associate at the MIT Media Lab.
External links
* [http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/schrage.html Press release announcing Google's hiring of Elliot Schrage]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E7D81E39F937A35755C0A963958260 New York Times wedding announcement for Elliot Schrage]
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