Emiliano Martínez
General Counsel, Waverly Street Foundation
Emiliano is an attorney with deep experience working with innovative philanthropic organizations focused on making the world a better place. As General Counsel for Waverley Street Foundation, Emiliano leads its legal function and serves as the advisor to the team on a variety of legal, governance, compliance, and risk-management matters.
Before joining Waverley Street Foundation, Emiliano was a Director on the legal team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), where he oversaw its exempt organizations and activities, while also supporting other legal matters and projects across CZI and its tax-exempt partners. Previously, Emiliano served as Senior Corporate Counsel at Omidyar Network, a global hybrid philanthropy based in the Bay Area as well as associate general counsel at Humanity United, a U.S.-based private foundation dedicated to building peace and advancing human freedom. Emiliano was also a founding executive and counsel of an angel-funded technology start-up company in the Bay Area, and he started his legal career as a litigation associate at Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles.
Emiliano received a J.D. with honors from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and a B.A. in American studies from Stanford University.
