Biography
Matteo Tonello
Matteo Tonello is a corporate governance and regulatory compliance expert with The Conference Board Governance Center in New York City. An international lawyer by background, Matteo has conducted for The Conference Board corporate law and risk management analyses and research in collaboration with leading corporations, institutional investors and professional firms. Also, he has participated as a speaker and moderator in educational programs on governance best practices.
Matteo is widely published on the subject of corporate governance, business ethics and compliance. Recently, he advised the Italian Commission of Study on Corporate Transparency, established by the Ministry of Finance, about the effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on foreign private issuers, and contributed to the drafting of the two final reports by the Commission. A new securities law enacted by the Italian Parliament in December 2005 was largely based on the Commission's findings and related recommendations.
Before joining The Conference Board, Matteo Tonello practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell. He received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School (1997) and a J.D. from the University of Bologna (1994). He also earned a S.J.D. from the St. Anna Graduate School of the University of Pisa (Italy) (1998) and was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School (1997).
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