Matthew Vinci is the director of education for the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), a position he has held since May 2013. Prior to coming to the IAFF, he served for 15 years on the Executive Board of the Professional Fire Fighters of Vermont, where he successfully passed several pieces of legislation in the Vermont Legislature to increase the protections and benefits for Vermont firefighters, and funding and resources for the Vermont Fire Academy. Vinci serves on the NFPA Fire Tests Committee and has been very active with regulation and legislation surrounding toxic flame retardants at the local, state and federal levels for over a decade. He graduated from New Hampshire Technical College in 1991 with an associate’s degree in fire science.