Matthew Rees is the founder of Geonomica, an editorial consulting firm that works with clients on speeches, books, articles, white papers, and other written materials. He is the co-author, with former IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano, of Re-Think: A Path to the Future, a book about the globally integrated enterprise and the emergence of the global economy. The firm has worked across a number of industries, including banking, health care, management consulting, accounting, and technology. Mr. Rees is a Senior Fellow at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and co-authors a column with the school’s Dean. He was the founder of FT Newsmine, a weekly email brief he produced in partnership with the Financial Times from 2009 to 2017. Mr. Rees’s work builds on his experience in government, where he served as a speechwriter for President Bush; the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice; and the U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Zoellick. He also served as a speechwriter and senior adviser for the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. During a ten-year career in journalism, Mr. Rees 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 writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Finance & Development (a publication of the International Monetary Fund). His book reviews are regularly published in The Wall Street Journal. 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.
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