{"id":16303,"date":"2025-11-13T21:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wise.staginglinks.com\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=16303"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:19:53","slug":"matthew-swift","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/wise.staging-dev.com\/ar\/biography\/matthew-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Swift is the Co-Founder, Chairman &amp; CEO of Concordia. Since its inception in 2011, Matthew and his business partner, Nicholas Logothetis, have grown Concordia into a reputable and impactful nonpartisan organization dedicated to actively creating, elevating, and sustaining cross-sector partnerships for positive social impact.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew\u2019s passion for entrepreneurship, global affairs, and collaboration has led to Concordia being recognized as the preeminent global hub for cross-sector partnerships. Under Matthew\u2019s leadership, Concordia has hosted numerous\u00a0global summits and practitioner-level convenings. Concordia has now held nine Annual Summits in New York City, with the most recent, in September 2019, the largest and most inclusive nonpartisan forum on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.\u00a0Concordia has also held regional summits in Miami, Bogot\u00e1, London, Madrid and Athens. Matthew has brought together an impressive group of international leaders to serve on Concordia\u2019s Leadership Council, which is comprised of Heads of State from around the world and top CEOs from multinational corporations.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to establishing Concordia, Matthew spent six years in the media industry, holding positions within News Corporation and its subsidiaries:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox News Channel<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sky.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Sky Broadcasting<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a>. He has also spent considerable time on Capitol Hill, working for Senator John Warner of Virginia and the Business Roundtable.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of Concordia, Matthew is active in politics, focusing on issue advocacy and the establishment of a mentoring platform for young professionals interested in political involvement. His motivations, both personally and professionally, are in response to issues such as economic opportunity, counter extremism, and entrepreneurship. Matthew is currently an Advisory Council Member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/programs\/millennium-leadership-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Millennium Leadership Program at the Atlantic Council<\/a>\u00a0and sits on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccaininstitute.org\/next-generation-leader-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The McCain Institute for International Leadership Next Generation Leaders\u2019 Advisory Council<\/a>, as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/s\/partnerships\/ac\/ppp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Department of State\u2019s Advisory Committee on Public-Private Partnerships<\/a>\u00a0(SAP3). Additionally, he is an Air Mobility Command Civic Leader with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United States Air Force<\/a>\u00a0and sits on the board of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seleni.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seleni Institute<\/a>. He is also a Contributor to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.larepublica.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Rep\u00fablica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Georgetown University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16304,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"members-type":[857],"class_list":["post-16303","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","members-type-speakers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Swift - WISE (Qatar Foundation)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wise.staging-dev.com\/ar\/biography\/matthew-swift\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matthew Swift - WISE (Qatar Foundation)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matthew Swift is the Co-Founder, Chairman &amp; CEO of Concordia. 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