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Chuck Cosson

Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

Chuck Cosson is Senior Policy Counsel for Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, WA.

Chuck helps Microsoft Corporation with public policy counsel in a number of substantive areas, including policy development, strategy, and regulatory counsel work. He leads policy development work on children's online safety, freedom of expression and corporate responsibility issues, and contributes to work on on telecoms/media policy including regulation of new media services. Chuck serves as a primary policy counsel support for Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing and worldwide government affairs teams. Chuck also supports Microsoft's policy communications work and its citizenship and CSR initiatives, including serving on the Board of the Global Network Initiative.

Before coming to Microsoft in 2004, Chuck was VP for Public Policy in Vodafone's Americas/Asia region. There, he led the company's public policy efforts in the U.S. and contributed to policy and CSR work in China, Japan, Mexico, Canada and Brazil. Chuck also chaired the policy team at the Liberty Alliance, where he was active on Internet safety and privacy issues. Prior to Vodafone, Chuck worked on public policy matters at AirTouch Communications and at the United States Telephone Association in Washington, D.C.

Chuck received a B.A., cum laude from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and a J.D., with honors, from the George Washington University law school. He is a native of Washington, D.C., and is married with two children. Chuck has published a novel entitled Whitewash, a political satire written under the pseudonym Erik Blair.

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Biography last updated January 21, 2010