Head of GovernanceFacebook
Brent Harris is the head of governance and director of strategic initiatives for Facebook. He leads the company's teams building an independent oversight board for Facebook and developing new forms of governance for the Internet. Before Facebook, Harris was a director at Redstone Strategy Group, where he advised boards and executives on philanthropy and public policy. Earlier in his career, he was counsel for the Presidential Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and a fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. His writing on foreign policy has appeared in op-eds for the New York Times and he is a board advisor for the International Council on Clean Transportation. Harris earned bachelor's, master's, and law degrees at Stanford University, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. He lives in California and enjoys the great outdoors.