diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index 080f5331e87..b6554eb71ef 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -2521,3 +2521,11 @@ filegroup(
     ],
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
 )
+
+# Base classes of EventManagerInterface
+grpc_cc_library(
+    name = "eventmanager_interface",
+    hdrs = [
+        "src/core/lib/iomgr/poller/eventmanager_interface.h",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/src/core/lib/iomgr/poller/eventmanager_interface.h b/src/core/lib/iomgr/poller/eventmanager_interface.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b4fbaeb7bbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/lib/iomgr/poller/eventmanager_interface.h
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright 2019 gRPC authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef GRPC_CORE_LIB_IOMGR_POLLER_EVENTMANAGER_INTERFACE_H
+#define GRPC_CORE_LIB_IOMGR_POLLER_EVENTMANAGER_INTERFACE_H
+
+namespace grpc {
+namespace experimental {
+
+class BaseEventManagerInterface {
+ public:
+  virtual ~BaseEventManagerInterface() {}
+};
+
+class EpollEventManagerInterface : public BaseEventManagerInterface {};
+
+}  // namespace experimental
+}  // namespace grpc
+
+#endif /* GRPC_CORE_LIB_IOMGR_POLLER_EVENTMANAGER_INTERFACE_H */