Alan Davidson, Head of Google’s Public Policy Operations, Resigns

Alan Davidson, who runs Google’s public policy operations for North and South America, will leave the company this month.

He started Google’s Washington office in 2005 as a one-man operation. He previously was associate director at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit group that advocates for an open Internet. Google has not named a successor and has no imminent plans to do so. Mistique Cano, a Google spokeswoman, said Google has “a deep bench” of people handling public policy, including Pablo Chavez, director of public policy in the United States.