Marta Belcher

Marta Belcher serves as President and Chair of the Filecoin Foundation and the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, as well as General Counsel and Head of Policy at Protocol Labs. Belcher holds additional roles as Special Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Board Member at the Blockchain Association, Creative Commons, and Zcash Foundation. Previous experience includes attorney positions at Ropes & Gray LLP, legal internships at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Apple, and extensive involvement in blockchain and emerging technologies. Belcher earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where serving as commencement speaker, and a B.A. summa cum laude in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, with studies at Freie Universität Berlin.