Wednesday\, October 15\, 2025\, from 12:00 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. EST
The Alumni in Residence program connects current HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring and advice. You’re invited to meet with Amar Mehta J.D. '06 during their vi rtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.
Amar Mehta is the Chief Legal Officer at Waymo\, an autonomous dri ving technology company with a mission to be the world’s most trusted drive r.
In his role\, Amar is responsible for legal\, insurance\, global p ublic policy\, and government relations. His purview leading legal includes Waymo’s financing and corporate development transactions\, worldwide comme rcial and strategic deals\, litigation and law enforcement matters\, and re gulatory compliance and product safety\, security and privacy counseling. A mar also leads development and enforcement of the company’s industry-leadin g IP portfolio and development of the company’s first-in-kind autonomous ve hicle technology insurance underwriting\, coverage and claims functions. In addition\, he leads the global public policy and government relations team for Waymo\, which is responsible for engaging with lawmakers and regulator s in the U.S. and around the world to help create rules for AV deployment.< /p>
Before becoming Waymo’s Chief Legal Officer\, as Deputy General Couns el\, Amar oversaw the IP\, Commercial\, Corporate\, and Employment legal fu nctions and Waymo’s corporate development function. Prior to Waymo\, Amar w as a senior member of Google’s IP group\, leading teams that covered Androi d\, Chrome\, Play\, Hardware and YouTube. Before joining Alphabet\, he was Partner and Chief Legal Officer at Altitude Capital Partners\, a private eq uity firm that generated more than $700 million from IP investments. Earlie r in his career\, Amar litigated IP matters at Fish & Richardson and was an investment banker in Credit Suisse First Boston’s technology group.
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