ABOUT CURIODYSSEY

Amar K. Mehta is Chief Legal Officer for Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car business. Having been at Alphabet for a decade, Amar spent the first six years of his career at Google working on intellectual property and transactional matters including the smartphone patent wars and Google’s acquisition of Motorola. More recently at Waymo, Amar manages the commercial, corporate, employment, and intellectual property teams within Waymo’s Legal team. At Waymo, Amar recently closed Waymo’s Series A and Series B fundraise and played a central role in Waymo’s trade secret litigation with Uber.

Amar is passionate about education and entrepreneurship. He currently advises the MIT Center for Entrepreneurship and the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition. Previously, he has guest lectured on legal topics at Stanford Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School. Amar also served on the board of directors for We Teach Science, a non-profit whose mission was to motivate, inspire and mentor students to achieve excellence in math and science. He has been drawn to CuriOdyssey since his kids (ages 7 and 4) began visiting the zoo and by his desire to build a love for science in young children.

Amar grew up in Baltimore, MD and graduated from MIT (bachelor’s and master’s in electrical engineering and computer science) and Harvard Law School. He currently lives in Hillsborough, CA with his wife, Rani, and their two sons.