Microsoft hires former Bush White House official

Microsoft announced the hiring former Bush administration official Suhail Khan as director of external affairs in the firm's Washington (DC) office.

Khan will work to build relationships between the software giant and think tanks, advocacy groups and political organizations. He will report to vice president of U.S. government affairs Fred Humphries. Currently a senior fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement, Khan served as a senior political employee under President George W. Bush at the White House and Department of Transportation. Khan earned a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 and his J.D. from the University of Iowa in 1995.