content: The latest personnel exchange between government and corporation was announced earlier this week, with Google hiring former White House economist Caroline Atkinson as its new head of global policy. Notable swaps between Google and the White House in the past have included Megan Smith, who left the tech company in 2014 to become Chief Technology Officer of the United States; and Andrew McLaughlin, who was Google’s head of global public policy until becoming the White House's deputy chief technology officer in 2009.  go away