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Facebook Poaches White House Advisor

Bolstering its policy team, Facebook just hired Marne Levine, chief of staff of the Obama Administration's National Economic Council, as its new vice president of global public policy. "Levine will oversee the company's interaction with governments and non-governmental organizations around the globe," reports The Washington Post.

Levine will be based in Washington, "Just as the firm builds its local policy and lobbying team to address growing interest by lawmakers and regulators on how the social networking giant is dealing with issues such as copyright, security of children online, and privacy," according to WaPo. Levine will also be expected to help Facebook build its policy teams in Asia, the Americas and Europe. For the Obama White House, Levine has helped coordinate the development of domestic and international economic policy under director Lawrence Summers. She formerly served as chief of staff for Summers, when he was President of Harvard University.

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