Matt Sigelman

Named by Forbes to its Future of Work 50, Sigelman has dedicated his career to bridging the gap between talent and opportunity. At Burning Glass Institute, Sigelman is focused on the intersection of the future of work and the future of learning in order to advance economic mobility and improved outcomes for workers and learners. Before launching the Burning Glass Institute, he served as CEO, then chairman, of Lightcast, the organization that pioneered the field of real-time labor market analytics and transformed how employers, education institutions, policymakers, and workers understand, plan for, and connect with the world of work. He serves as senior advisor at the Harvard Project on the Workforce and a Futures Fellow at the Stanford Center on Longevity and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He writes extensively about the job market, has testified before Congress, and is consulted frequently by public officials and the global media. He holds an MBA from Harvard and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.