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Past Event
Director Series

Belfer Center Director’s Seminar with Allen Blue

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a seminar with Allen Blue, vice president of product management and cofounder of LinkedIn in the Belfer Library (L369). Eric Rosenbach, Co-Director of the Belfer Center, will moderate the event.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369

About

Allen Blue is vice president of product management and co-founder of LinkedIn, the online professional network. At LinkedIn, he is responsible for LinkedIn’s overall product strategy. He also sponsors LinkedIn’s work and education products within the economic graph team, including the products and platforms supporting Skillful.com (a joint effort to close the middle skills gap in the United States between LinkedIn and the Markle Foundation.) He advises several startups in Silicon Valley, most focused on improving health and education. He sat on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Data Advisory Council, helping guide the department’s efforts to make its data broadly available to American businesses. Blue serves on the boards of the Hope Street Group, a non-profit which focuses on bringing economic opportunity to Americans through a combination of policy and practice, and Change.org, an online destination for making grassroots-driven change easier. Before LinkedIn, Blue co-founded SocialNet.com, an online dating service, and graduated from Stanford University.