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Matthew Rees

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Matthew Rees

President, Geonomica
Matthew Rees

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 has co-written, with the Dean of Stanford University’s School of Medicine, Dr. Lloyd Minor, Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being. He is also the co-author, with former IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano, of Re-Think: A Path to the Future. Mr. Rees is a Senior Fellow at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and the editor of an email newsletter, Food and Health Facts. Mr. Rees’s government experience includes serving 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 at the Securities and Exchange Commission. A former journalist, Mr. Rees was employed in Washington for The Economist, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard, and in New York and Brussels for The Wall Street Journal. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The International Economy, Reader's Digest, and Finance & Development. He is a frequent contributor of book reviews to The Wall Street Journal. A native of Lafayette, California, Mr. Rees is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He participates in U.S. Masters swim meets and writes occasional articles for SwimSwam, an online swimming publication.