About The Founder: Matthew Rees

Matthew Rees is the founder of Geonomica, a consulting firm that assists its clients with speechwriting, communications and strategy. Mr. Rees has worked across a number of industries, including banking, private equity, management consulting, accounting, technology, education, and health care. He is the editor of FT Newsmine, a weekly brief of financial market facts and figures produced in collaboration with the Financial Times.

During Mr. Rees’s time in government, he served as a speechwriter for the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, and as a speechwriter and senior adviser for the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, William Donaldson. His government experience also includes service in the Executive Office of the President, where he was a speechwriter for President Bush; the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice; and the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Zoellick.

During a ten-year career in journalism, Mr. Rees wrote for a number of America's most respected publications. He was employed in Washington for The Weekly Standard, The Economist, and The New Republic, and in New York and Brussels for The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Rees’s freelance writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Economy, Reader's Digest, and Finance & Development (a publication of the International Monetary Fund). He continues to write book reviews for The Wall Street Journal. His 2007 article revisiting the 1987 market crash was favorably cited by Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson, Time columnist Justin Fox, and a Nobel laureate economist.

A native of Lafayette, California, Mr. Rees is a graduate of Wesleyan University and has pursued graduate work at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He has also been a Term Member with the Council on Foreign Relations, and attended Young Leader conferences sponsored by the American Council on Germany and the American Swiss Foundation. A competitive swimmer, he participates in U.S. Masters swim meets in the Washington area.