Matthew Kaminski is a journalist and media executive, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Matt is currently the Editorial Chair of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc., an Arabic-first media platform, and the founder of the advisory firm EMA. He is also a senior advisor at Evident AI Insights, New Vista Capital and a member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group (Asia) and the Executive Advisory Board of World.Minds in Zurich.

Over a decade, Matt helped build POLITICO into a transatlantic media powerhouse. He was the founding editor-in-chief of POLITICO Europe, a joint venture formed in 2014 that he led through 2018, and subsequently editor-in-chief of POLITICO, which he left at the end of 2024.

Starting as a freelancer from Eastern Europe before his senior year in college, Matt has reported on international affairs, politics and business for over 30 years. He covered the former Soviet Union for the Financial Times and The Economist from 1994 to 1997, and joined The Wall Street Journal in 1997, going on to hold a variety of writing and editing roles with the publication in Brussels, Paris and New York. In 2004, Matt was awarded the Peter Weitz Prize by the German Marshall Fund for a series of stories on the European Union. His coverage of the Ukrainian crisis earned him an Overseas Press Club award in 2015, and he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary that year.

Matt was born in Warsaw, Poland, and moved to the US at the age of eight. He grew up in Washington and holds degrees from Yale College and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He lives in Washington.