Emily Ma

Emily Ma is a climate and social impact intrapreneur. She currently oversees a number of special projects focused on sustainable internal operations for Google in 56 countries. This includes efforts such as establishing Google’s public global food waste goals and driving various efforts to decarbonize Google’s global real estate portfolio.  

Prior, Emily oversaw Google’s cross-functional food security efforts building on her technical work on food systems started at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory. She activated Google’s philanthropic arm, initiated partnerships with the food and agricultural industry, and drove industry change by increasing data openness to reduce food waste and food insecurity. At Google, she has also worked on a wide range of breakthrough technologies including Loon internet balloons and Glass smart glasses.  

Emily started her career as a mechanical engineer at IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy, during which she came to embrace the equal importance of human-centered design, engineering and business. With this, she returned to Stanford University to pursue her MBA and continues to actively teach entrepreneurship classes at the Stanford School of Engineering, hosting guests such as Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) in her classes. She is the holder of seven patents spanning medical devices to consumer electronics.