Matt DiGuiseppe is a Managing Director in 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.

Matt has nearly 20 years of corporate governance and ESG experience in shareholder, management, and board and management advisory roles across sectors. He was most recently the Vice President of Research and ESG with Diligent Corporation where he led their ESG Center of Excellence and oversaw a global research team focused on ESG topics. Prior, as Head of Americas Asset Stewardship at State Street Global Advisors, Matt and his colleagues were responsible for developing and implementing SSGA’s global proxy voting policies and guidelines across all investment strategies and managing SSGA’s proxy voting activities and issuer engagement on material ESG issues. He was also a member of the internal Proxy Review Committee. He held a similar position on the Nuveen (fka TIAA) Stewardship & Corporate Governance Team.

Matt has participated in numerous industry groups and speaks frequently on corporate governance and ESG matters. He is a member of the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) Markets Advisory Council and sit on the Advisory Board for the University of Delaware John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance. He was the founding chairperson of the Investor Stewardship Group (ISG), which advanced a set of corporate governance and stewardship principles for the US market that are backed by over 70 members with assets under management in excess of US $32 trillion.