Matthew Gitsham

Matt is Director of Hult’s Sustainability Impact Lab. He specializes in Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Organizational Change.

Matt has led numerous research projects on business and sustainable development for over a decade at Ashridge. Recent projects include exploring CEO perspectives on the implications of sustainability for business leadership, CEO lobbying for more ambitious public policy on sustainable development, the role of business in shaping the UN SDGs, how companies are embedding the SDGs (in partnership with Business Fights Poverty). Matt has worked closely with networks including the UN Global Compact and Business in the Community, and companies including Unilever, IBM, HSBC, GSK, De Beers, Cemex and Pearson.

Matt has led many courses on Business and Global Society, Sustainable Development and Human Rights themes across Hult’s postgraduate and undergraduate programs, and is a frequent contributor to Hult/EF Corporate Education programs for many custom executive education clients around the world. He also supervises several doctoral students.

Matt is a frequent contributor to industry and academic conferences and is widely published. His research has featured in the Economist, the Financial Times and the Harvard Business Review, as well as at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.

Matt was awarded the ‘Rising Star’ award as part of the Aspen Institute-Academy of Business in Society European Faculty Pioneer Awards. He has also been identified on Thinkers50 Radar as one of the up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas are predicted to make an important impact on management thinking in the future.