Matt Warner is president of Atlas Network, a nonprofit grantmaking organization committed to supporting local NGOs in more than 90 countries. Matt is co-author of Development with Dignity: Self-determination, Localization, and an End to Poverty (Routledge, 2022) and the editor of Poverty and Freedom: Case Studies on Global Economic Development and coined the term "the outsider's dilemma" to describe the challenge of helping low-income countries develop without getting in the way of their most viable paths to prosperity. Matt writes, speaks, and consults internationally on the topics of economics, institution building, nonprofit management, and impact philanthropy. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Hill, Cato Journal, Forbes, Harvard's Building State Capability, and EconTalk, among others. Matt has a master's degree in economics from George Mason University and is certified by Georgetown University in organizational development consulting. He is also a 2019-2020 Penn Kemble Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy, a board member of America’s Future, and an affiliate scholar with the Complexity Economics Workshop.
Matt and his wife Chrissy, an attorney, live in Vienna, Virginia with their four children.
- Development with Dignity, Cato Daily Podcast, March 25, 2022
- Dignity and Liberal Democracy, Human Progress, March 24, 2022
- Development with Dignity: Self-determination, Localization, and the End to Poverty, Routledge, Jan. 2022
- Process of Change, Building State Capability, Harvard University, Feb., 2022
- Foreign aid is at a crossroads — here's the path to take, The Hill, Feb. 2, 2022
- Acabar con la pobreza en el siglo XXI, pp. 428-435, El Manual Liberal, May 2021
- Will the Biden admin use international aid money effectively?, CQ Researcher, Apr. 23, 2021
- Matt Warner: “People support what they help create”, Thrive Global, Dec. 11, 2020
- Washington Journal: Matt Warner on Foreign Aid & COVID-19 Pandemic, C-SPAN, Nov. 26, 2022
- UN should prioritize ease of trade to fight poverty, The Hill, September 22, 2020
- Book Review, The Light that Failed, Cato Journal, Fall 2020
- Big Ideas That Might Change The World, Authority Magazine, Sep 8, 2020
- eBaithak with Matt Warner on "Poverty & Freedom", Centre for Civil Society, Aug 28, 2020
- How Atlas Network advances economic rights for vulnerable people, Devex, Aug 19, 2020
- Harnessing an enabling environment for women post-pandemic, Devex, August 6, 2020
- Trade Policy Can Lead Covid-19 Economic Recovery, CSIS, August 6, 2020
- The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed, Foreign Policy, July 13, 2020 (Spanish)
- National Review's The Editors podcast with Rich Lowry, May 11, 2020
- Q&A: Five Questions with Matt Warner, John Templeton Foundation, Feb. 25, 2020
- State capability and liberty must advance together to end poverty, Devex, Feb. 3, 2020
- Poverty and Freedom with Matt Warner and Dan Rivers, iHeartRadio, Dec. 13, 2019
- Why Foreign Aid Does More Harm Than Good, Independent Women's Forum, Dec. 6, 2019
- Poverty and Freedom: Global Economic Development, Cato Daily Podcast, Oct. 30, 2019
- When Tackling Poverty, Context and Consent Matter, Washington Examiner, Oct. 24, 2019
- What Trump's Foreign Aid Fight Can Teach Us, The Hill, Aug. 29, 2019
- Development Economics and the Outsider's Dilemma, Cato Daily Podcast, Mar. 23, 2019
- Can Think Tanks Succeed Where Foreign Aid Has Failed?, Fee.org, Jan. 22, 2019
- Simeon Djankov and Matt Warner on the Doing Business report, EconTalk, Nov. 27, 2017
- Cut Foreign Aid to Help the World's Poor, CapX, Oct. 5, 2017
- Is Development Aid the New Colonialism? Fee.org, Sep. 28, 2017
- Book Review: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Cato Journal, Winter 2016
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