SAN FRANCISCO, March 27 (Reuters) - Meta's long-time

content policy chief Monika Bickert, who oversaw the writing and

enforcement of Facebook's content policies and had a role in the

company's approach to user safety issues, is leaving the company

for a job at Harvard Law School.

Bickert will stay at Meta until August and work on a

transition plan with Kevin Martin, who oversees Meta's global

policy team, she wrote in an internal post viewed by Reuters on

Friday, which said she had long been interested in teaching.

As head of content policy, Bickert has regularly served as

Meta's public face amid controversies over its handling of

political content and teen mental health. A former federal

prosecutor, she joined Facebook in 2012. The company later

changed its name to Meta.

"Yes, we're a business and we make profit, but the idea that

we do so at the expense of people's safety or well-being

misunderstands where our own commercial interests lie," she

wrote in 2021 after the leak of documents by former Meta

employee Frances Haugen.

In a statement, Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel

Kaplan praised Bickert's work at the company.