Dick Kilgust
Global Managing Partner – Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Richard R. Kilgust (Dick) is Global Managing Partner - Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs. He develops, and helps to implement, PricewaterhouseCoopers' policies and positions relating to legislative and regulatory changes which affect the accounting profession. Dick meets frequently with lawmakers, other policy-makers, investors and regulators to address matters affecting the accounting profession and its role in capital markets.

He also chairs the Global Public Policy Committee, which is comprised of senior partners from the largest six global networked firms. Dick is a former member of PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Oversight Board and US Firm's Board of Partners and Principals. He has served as the lead partner on some of the US firm's largest audit clients.

Dick joined the US firm in 1973 after graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with Bachelors and MBA degrees. He was named as the 1995 Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Wisconsin Department of Accounting and Information Systems. He is a board member of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of North Texas. He was appointed by the President of the United States to serve on the Commission on Presidential Scholars.