Kent Walker
Kent Walker is an American legal executive who has served as President of Global Affairs and Chief legal officer of Alphabet since 2021.
Some of the key events about Kent Walker
- 1986Graduated from Harvard Law School
- 1989Joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney
- 1993Became a partner at the law firm Cooley Godward
- 1997Joined Netscape as Deputy General Counsel
- 1999Became Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Liberate Technologies
- 2002Joined eBay as Deputy General Counsel
- 2004Became Google's first general counsel outside of its founders
- 2010Promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Google
- 2015Appointed to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board by President Obama
- 2018Elevated to Senior Vice President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google
- 2018Faced criticism for Google's plans to launch a censored search engine in China, codenamed "Project Dragonfly"
- 2019Testified before Congress regarding Google's data collection practices and privacy concerns
- 2020Oversaw Google's response to antitrust investigations, which led to multiple lawsuits against the company
- 2021Defended Google's decision to remove certain political content and apps from its platforms, sparking free speech debates
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