Matthew Campbell is an award-winning reporter and editor for Bloomberg Businessweek and the co-author, with Kit Chellel, of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy.
Matt has reported from more than 25 countries on topics including crime, corruption, terrorism, economics, public health, and the environment. His work has been recognised with some of the most prestigious honours in journalism. He and Chellel won Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club awards for their coverage of Goldman Sachs’ business dealings with Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, and Matt has also received National Press Club, SOPA, and SABEW awards for feature and investigative reporting. He is a seven-time Loeb finalist in addition to his win with Chellel, and in 2022 was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for public interest reporting.
Born in Canada, Matt was educated at Yale, where he graduated with a B.A. in political science, and at Oxford, where he received an M.Phil in politics. He lives in Singapore with his family.
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