Marne Levine is an American businesswoman and 2005 Harvard Business School graduate who became the chief operating officer (COO) of Instagram in 2014. Levine is a director of Women for Women International.

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Career

She majored in political science and speech communications in Miami University in Ohio in 1992 and graduated from Harvard Business School in 2005. “My senior project was about solid-waste management. They nicknamed me Trash Queen.” From 1993 to 2000, she worked for the United States Treasury Department. She worked for Bill Clinton and the Obama administration, and was chief of staff from 2001 to 2003 for Harvard University president Larry Summers. From 2006 to 2008, she was a product manager at Revolution Money. From 2009-2010, she was chief of staff for the National Economic Council. “I worked on person-to-person online money transfer. One of my first tasks was to prioritize 1,000 bugs after user testing. I didn’t know what a bug was. It was a long night.”

Levine was vice president of global public policy for Facebook from 2010 to 2014. In 2014, she became COO at Instagram. “Video is just exploding on Instagram—motion is the new filter. We’re going to help people use visuals to tell their stories.” She described her job to Elle magazine as analyzing internal operations and deciding how to run them better, faster, smarter. And to make sure Instagram works as well for users as it does for advertisers.

Boards

Levine is a member of the board of Lean In, a non-profit created by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to empower women. She is also on the Board of Directors of Chegg. Levine is a director of Women for Women International.

Personal life

Levine is married to Phillip Deutch and is the mother of two boys.

She suffered a partial hearing loss at the age of four, and because of embarrassment, employed coping strategies rather than visible hearing aids. She started to use hearing aids in 2015, which she said made her life exponentially better.