Matt Sigelman

President, Burning Glass Institute

Matt Sigelman is President of the Burning Glass Institute and a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Named by Forbes as one of the 50 people having the greatest impact in shaping the future of work, Matt has dedicated his career to unlocking new avenues for mobility, prosperity, and equity through skills.  

The Burning Glass Institute advances data-driven research and practice on the future of work and the future of learning.  Before launching the Burning Glass Institute, Matt served for 19 years as CEO of KKR-backed Lightcast.  Matt and his team pioneered the field of real-time labor market data, a breakthrough innovation that has transformed the way that employers, universities, government agencies, and workers understand the landscape of talent and opportunity.  By mining billions of job openings and career histories in over 30 countries, Matt led Lightcast to become the foremost authority on the global market for talent, harnessing advanced AI to render data that provide unprecedented granularity and insight.  

Matt’s work has cracked the genetic code of an increasingly dynamic market, with deep insights that not only chart how the labor market is being redefined but also identify the skills that bridge the gap between people and opportunity.  This intelligence is critical in protecting the workforce from obsolescence and in highlighting routes to economic advancement amidst the threat of unprecedented automation-driven displacement and declining intergenerational mobility.  

Previously, Matt worked at McKinsey & Company and at Capital One.  

Matt is also Founder of the Main Line Classical Academy, an elementary school bringing the classical liberal arts curriculum and rigorous study in math and science to the kindergarten level on up and dedicated to the idea that children are never too young to learn great things.

He writes widely on the job market, has testified before Congress, and is consulted frequently by public officials and the global media. His work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Hechinger Report, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Chicago Tribune, Inside Higher Education, and The Hill, with a chapter forthcoming in a book from MIT Press.  Matt holds an AB from Princeton University, an MBA from Harvard University, and is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.