Director, Social Enterprise InitiativeHarvard Business School
Matt Segneri is the Director of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI). SEI's mission is to educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to solve society's toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Matt oversees SEI’s strategy and operations, including MBA and executive education programming, alumni and practitioner engagement, and faculty research and curriculum support.
Prior to returning to HBS, Matt was a senior leader on the Government Innovation team at Bloomberg Philanthropies and a senior advisor to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, whose office he joined as an HBS Leadership Fellow. He also worked in the Special Advisor Program at the FBI and led projects at Monitor Group for clients across the private, public, and social sectors.
Matt was recognized by the Boston Business Journal as one of Boston’s “Top 40 under 40” and by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce as one of Boston’s “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders.”
Matt holds an A.B. with honors in Psychology from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves on the national board of directors of Generation Citizen and is a Truman Security Fellow and an Advisor to Fuse Corps, New Politics, and Project 351. He lives in Newton with his wife and three children.