Elizabeth Linder serves as Facebook's Politics & Government Specialist for the Europe, Middle East & Africa region. In this capacity, she advises political representatives, government agencies, public administrations, and think tanks across the Europe, Middle East & Africa regions on the intersection of Facebook and 21st-century governance. Ms. Linder works closely with her constituents to better understand Facebook's technology, identify how Facebook fits in to the global demand for more transparency and openness in the public sector, and examine societal trends that profoundly influence the ways in which the public interacts with its leaders. Ms. Linder has built Facebook's EMEA Politics & Government Program from the ground up, working with more than twenty-seven countries at the head-of-state, national, and local levels since January 2011. Her constituents have included heads-of-state, ambassadors and embassy representatives, members of parliament, royal households, think tanks specializing in global governance, city mayors, national police forces, and e-governance units. A California native, Ms. Linder joined Facebook from the company's headquarters in 2008. Prior to Facebook, she specialized in U.S. politics and education at YouTube as part of Google's Global Communications & Public Affairs team. A French and Italian major who wrote her thesis on the nineteenth-century metropolis, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University. She currently resides in London.