Derek Smith

Associate General Counsel, Homes

Airbnb

Speaker 2019

Derek Smith is the Associate General Counsel for Airbnb’s core Homes business.
He has also held in-house positions at Palantir in Palo Alto and LivingSocial in
Washington DC. Previously, Derek clerked on the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit and worked in the Washington, DC office of
Latham & Watkins. Derek is a graduate of Harvard University, earned a doctorate
in International Relations from Oxford University, and received his J.D. from Yale
Law School.