Karan Bhatia employer Google
Karan Krishna Bhatia is an American attorney and former senior official in the Bush administration. He currently leads public policy and government relations for Google. He served as the deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 2005 to 2007, credited with leading the negotiation of the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. Additional appointments include Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs where he served from 2003 to 2005 and deputy under secretary of commerce for industry and security from 2001 to 2003. He served a total of six years in the Bush Administration before returning to the private sector in 2008 to lead government affairs for General Electric.Google
In 2018, Bhatia left GE to join Google as their new Global Head of Policy, tasked with overseeing the company’s policy discussions on issues such as AI, job creation and infrastructure. During his first year in the position, he incorporated “government affairs” into his division’s name, placing it before “public policy” to emphasize relationship building over the production of white paper reports. He also reduced the number of contract lobbyists working within the unit. During a hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2019, Bhatia confirmed that the company’s effort to launch a search engine in China codenamed Project Dragonfly had been abandoned, in response to questions from Republican Senator Josh Hawley regarding Google’s business dealings with China.
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