Bio
Christine Y. Chen joined Google in 2008 as a policy communications manager responsible for privacy and other issues. Previously, she spent three years as a senior editor at Foreign Policy magazine (winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence for issues published in 2006 and 2008), where she commissioned and edited reviews, feature articles, and essays. Prior to joining FP, she was a writer-reporter for several years at Fortune magazine, where she focused on the technology, telecommunications and media industries. Before joining Fortune, she worked at Newsweek International. Her work has also appeared in publications as diverse as The New Republic, Business 2.0, and Budget Travel.
Christine has been a Fulbright scholar, an East-West Center Jefferson Fellow, and an Asia Foundation Freeman Fellow. She received an M.Sc. in International Relations at the London School of Economics and a B.A in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and studied abroad in Germany and Finland.