Maria Moats is the leader of PwC’s Governance Insights Center, which strives to strengthen the connection between directors, executive teams, and investors by helping them navigate the evolving governance landscape. With more than 25 years of experience at PwC, Maria is an Audit partner and has previously held important PwC leadership roles within the US firm. From 2011 to 2016 Maria served as PwC’s Chief Diversity Officer. After that role, and before becoming the leader of the Governance Insights Center, Maria served as Vice-Chair, Mexico & US Assurance Leader. In this capacity she oversaw PwC’s national Assurance practice, including strategy and all operational aspects to oversee a practice of approximately 20,000 professionals. Maria has held board roles with the March of Dimes (Dallas & Northern New Jersey), currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Dallas Theater Center, the Advisory Board of The University of Texas at El Paso - College of Business Administration, the Board and Audit Committee of Donors Choose and is an active member of the Executive Women’s Roundtable Dallas Regional Chamber. Maria is a Certified Public Accountant (licensed in Texas, New Jersey, New York & Massachusetts), is fluent in Spanish and is a graduate of The University of Texas at El Paso with a BBA in Accounting.