2020 Global Awards Ceremony, October 21 Eric Koenig worked as a senior attorney and regional lawyer at Microsoft’s European Headquarters from 1991-98, and as the head of Microsoft’s federal policy team in Washington, DC from 1998-2001. He retired from Microsoft in 2001. Eric also serves as Treasurer of the Appleseed Foundation, Board Chair of the American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and a board member of the Juvenile Law Center.