13 Facts About Elliot Schrage

Elliot J Schrage is an American lawyer and business executive.

Elliot Schrage studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France.

Since 1990, Elliot Schrage served as adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he taught a seminar that "explores the intersection of international human rights law and multinational business practices", and Columbia Law School.

In 2007, Elliot Schrage was instrumental in creating a partnership between the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth team to map evidence of atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan and raise public awareness of the attempted genocide in the region.

The interview was panned and negatively rated in the press, with Elliot Schrage attracting criticism for his poor handling of Facebook's privacy policies.

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In 2018, it was reported that Elliot Schrage tasked a Republican-affiliated PR firm to push negative narratives about Facebook's competitors, namely Apple and Google.

Elliot Schrage was succeeded by former British Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg.

Elliot Schrage helped to create, and co-taught, the first stand-alone course dedicated to exploring the human rights responsibilities of global business at Columbia Business School in the early 1990s.

Elliot Schrage advised various international corporations and trade associations, assisting them in developing corporate "codes of conduct" on human rights.

In 1996, Elliot Schrage helped organize a partnership between three organizations; UNICEF, the ILO and Save the Children.

Elliot Schrage led study groups on Judging Corporate Liability in the Global Economy, Leveraging the Power of the Privat Sector in the Middle East and North Africa and Beyond the Letter of the Law: The Global Impact of Compliance as a Foreign Policy Tool.

Elliot Schrage advised the American Apparel Manufacturers Association in developing the Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production Certification Program, a global program to certify apparel factories that comply with human rights standards.

Elliot Schrage was twice appointed by President Obama to serve as Trustee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.