Matthew Ogbeifun manages policy stakeholder engagement for a Big Tech company, where he focuses on bringing together diverse perspectives to shape content and product policy development through structured and sustained engagement.

His work enhances transparency, advances integrity efforts ahead of elections in at-risk countries and promotes the safety and voice for a global community of users.

Matthew’s professional and academic experiences seek to understand and solve some of the most important issues facing society. Mathew’s prior positions included Weber Shandwick where he led integrated public affairs and issues management campaigns in highly regulated industries, the United States House of Representatives, where he engaged federal agencies on data governance and education policy issues, the University of Minnesota Center for the Study of Political Psychology where he worked to examine the psychological correlates and consequences of racial phenotypicality on key discretionary criminal and civil judicial decisions and local political campaigns where he advanced on various reform and advocacy efforts.

With expertise spanning tech policy, public affairs, public engagement and communications strategy, Matthew is passionate about pushing technological boundaries while committed to building with human rights, privacy and responsible innovation at the forefront of the approach.