Tony West is Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Uber, where he leads the company’s global Legal, Compliance and Ethics, and Security functions.
With nearly three decades of experience spanning both public and private sectors, Tony was twice-confirmed by the U.S. Senate to senior positions in the Obama administration; has been a key driver in Uber’s cultural change, including its efforts to become the industry leader in safety; and has helped the company usher in a new era as a public company. As a result of this work along with his bold corporate transparency initiatives, he was recently named General Counsel of the Year by American Lawyer.
Before joining Uber, Tony was Executive Vice President Public Policy & Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at PepsiCo.
Tony served as Associate Attorney General, the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) third-ranking official, where he oversaw the Civil Rights, Antitrust, Tax, Environment and Natural Resources, and Civil Divisions, as well as the Office of Justice Programs, the Office on Violence Against Women, and the Community Oriented Policing Services Office. As Associate AG, During that time, Tony secured nearly $37 billion in fines and restitution for Americans who were harmed by financial institutions during the 2009 financial crisis.
Prior to that, Tony was Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division, the DOJ’s largest litigating division. In that role, Tony led the DOJ’s review of the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), advocating strongly and successfully that the department abandon its long-standing defense of the statute because the law was unconstitutional.
In 2014, Attorney General Eric Holder presented him with the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the DOJ’s highest honor.
Earlier in his career, Tony was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of California; served as Special Assistant AG at the California Department of Justice; and was a litigation partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco.
Tony graduated with honors from Harvard College, where he served as publisher of the Harvard Political Review, and received his law degree from Stanford Law School, where he was President of the Stanford Law Review. He currently serves on the BXP Board of Directors and also sits on the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Board of Directors and the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Advisory Council.
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