Elliot Schrage

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Elliot Schrage is a lawyer and business advisor with more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of global business strategy and public policy. He is responsible for the company’s public-facing communications, including media relations, policy strategy and stakeholder outreach, as well as internal communications.

Ellit is the VP of Communications and Public Policy at Facebook. Previously he worked at Google, where he was the Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs..

Prior to joining Google, Elliot was the Bernard L. Schwarz senior fellow in business and foreign policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, and an advisor to several global corporations on issues of corporate social responsibility. Immediately preceding, he was senior vice president of global affairs for Gap Inc., the largest specialty retailer in the U.S., where he directed the company’s government affairs initiatives and managed its global compliance organization.

Before joining Gap, Elliot served 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 an adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School and Columbia Law School. He has published articles in the Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post and the Financial Times, among other publications.

Elliot received a JD from Harvard Law School, a Master in Public Policy (MPP) from the Kennedy School of Government, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. He also studied at École Normale Superieure in Paris.