Brent C. Harris is the head of strategic initiatives at Facebook. Before Facebook, he was a director at Redstone. During his time at the firm, he started the California office and provided counsel to boards and executives on public policy and philanthropy.

Earlier in his career, Brent was the vice president for operations at ClimateWorks and a lawyer for the presidential commission on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He has contributed to several books and written op-eds for the New York Times. He holds a B.A., M.A., and J.D. from Stanford University, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review.