Samidh Chakrabarti

Director of Product Management

Facebook, US

Samidh Chakrabarti is Director of Product Management at Facebook where he focuses on enhancing civic engagement on the platform, including efforts to protect the integrity of elections. Before coming to Facebook, he was also the product lead for Google’s civic engagement initiative and was responsible for politics & elections features globally. Samidh has been working in the Civic Tech sector before it even had such a name, and holds graduate degrees in Public Policy from the University of Cambridge, in Modern History from the University of Oxford, and in Computer Science from MIT

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Improving Civic Discourse on Facebook