As BoomTown Said: Google Hires Policy Wonk for Policy Wonking

Confirming what BoomTown’s sources were saying in July, Jared Cohen, who gained fame as the State Department’s social networking phenom and the youngest member of its policy planning staff, is headed for Google. Cohen will serve as director of a new unit called Google Ideas, which he describes as a “think/do tank” that will try to bring together stakeholders to tackle intransigent global problems.