Samuel A. DiPiazza
President, PricewaterhouseCoopers International
Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr. has served as CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited since 2002. Prior to that he led the PricewaterhouseCoopers US Firm, as Chairman and Senior Partner, and was a member of the Global Leadership Team.
Mr. DiPiazza joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1973 and became a partner in 1979. He was elected to the Firm Council in 1986 and headed the Birmingham, Alabama and Chicago, Illinois offices before being named Midwest Regional Managing Partner in 1992. Two years later he became the Regional Managing Partner of the New York Metro Region with a dual role as Client Service Vice-Chairman. In 1998, Mr. DiPiazza was named the Americas Leader for Tax and Legal Services for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and he was elected Chairman and Senior Partner of the US firm in 2000.
Mr. DiPiazza currently serves as a Trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation. He is Chairman of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development and an Executive Committee member of the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. Mr. DiPiazza is also the Chairman of IBLAC (International Business Leaders Advisory Council to the Mayor of Shanghai), and a member of the Board of the World Economic Forum Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI). He has served as a Trustee for the Financial Accounting Foundation, and is a member of the Executive Committee and the immediate past Chairman, Board of Trustees of The Conference Board, Inc.
Very active in civic affairs, Mr. DiPiazza is the past Global Chairman of Junior Achievement Worldwide, and serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Inner City Scholarship Fund and of the Board of Directors of the New York City Ballet. He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, as well as a past President of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York City.
Mr. DiPiazza received a dual degree in Accounting/Economics from the University of Alabama and an MS in Tax Accounting from the University of Houston. He has been honoured as Accountant of the Year by the Beta Alpha Psi Society, and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the INROADS Leadership Award.
In 2002, Mr. DiPiazza co-authored Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting.
