Elliot Schrage is Vice President of Special Projects at Facebook, where his responsibilities have included oversight of outreach to governments, policymakers and global media about the company’s products and services, corporate business and partnerships. He joined Facebook from Google, where he helped build and scale a similar function. Previously, Elliot was Bernard L. Schwarz Senior Fellow in business and foreign policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. Earlier, Elliot served as Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for Gap Inc. and for many years as adjunct professor at Columbia University and Columbia Law School, leading a seminar exploring the intersection of transnational business and international human rights. He started his career as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Paris.
Elliot serves as a presidential appointee as Trustee of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, on the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank Board of Directors, as a member of the Visiting Committee for Harvard Law School and the Dean’s Council at the Kennedy School of Government. He previously served on the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the US Treasury Advisory Committee on International Child Labor Enforcement. He has been a board advisor to Dharma, Inc. a data analytics platform, Luminate, an interactive image service purchased by Yahoo and numerous non-profit organizations.
Elliot holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Law School.
