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To mark his first visit to France as CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai gave a keynote speech at Sciences Po on Wednesday 24 February 2016.

In his speech entitled Knowledge for All, Pichai outlined Google’s focus on transformative technology, smart partnerships and long-term investment. He explained how this approach is central to Google’s presence in France and its work with the news ecosystem in Europe and around the world. He also made a few announcements... Watch Pichai’s speech on the Sciences Po Livestream Channel.

About Sundar Pichai, CEO Google Inc
As Google’s chief executive officer, Pichai is responsible for Google’s product development and technology strategy, and for the company's day-to-day-operations.

Pichai joined Google in 2004 and helped lead the development of Google Toolbar and Google Chrome, key consumer products which are now used by hundreds of millions of people. In 2014 he took over product, engineering, and research efforts for all of Google’s products and platforms. This includes Search, Maps, Communications, Google Play, Commerce, and Ads, as well as Google’s suite of cloud-based solutions for consumers, businesses and education known as Google Apps and Cloud Platform. It also includes two of the most important platforms in computing today—Android and Chrome. After years of working closely with Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Pichai became Google’s CEO in August 2015.

Before joining Google, Pichai held positions at Applied Materials and McKinsey & Company. Pichai received a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and was awarded an Institute Silver Medal. He holds a master's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from the Wharton School, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar.