Matthew Rees is the founder of Food and Health Facts, a newsletter focused on America’s toxic food culture. 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 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 is also the founder of Geonomica, an editorial consulting firm that works with clients on speeches, books, articles, white papers, and other written materials.

Mr. Rees’s experience includes serving as a speechwriter in the George W. Bush administration for the President, the National Security Adviser, the U.S. Trade Representative, and the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman.

During a ten-year career in journalism, Mr. Rees wrote for some 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 writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, STAT, MedPage Today, The International Economy, Reader’s Digest, and Finance & Development (a publication of the International Monetary Fund). He is a frequent contributor of book reviews to The Wall Street Journal. Those reviews, and several articles he has written under his own byline, can be accessed here.

A native of Lafayette, California, Mr. Rees is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He also swims for fitness, writes occasional articles for SwimSwam (an online swimming publication), and is a yacht rock devotee.