Matthew Swift

Matthew Ardleigh Swift (born August 28, 1986) is an American entrepreneur and nonprofit executive. He is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Concordia Summit, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that promotes public-private partnerships between business, government, and nonprofit organizations to address the world's most pressing problems.

Early life and education Swift was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia. His mother is Teri Ardleigh Swift, the co-founder of Xcovery Vision.

He went to high school at Salisbury School, an all-boys boarding school in Salisbury, Connecticut, through 2006. He attended Georgetown University, graduating in 2010 with a B.A. in Government and National Security Studies. Later, they worked at the New York Post, where they created a weekly insert targeting the 18- to 24-year-old demographic.

Swift's early career also included work for T. Boone Pickens and the Pickens Plan, an internship with Virginia Senator John Warner,

Concordia Summit In 2009, while a student at Georgetown University, Swift won charity auctions for lunch dates with former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, who were both teaching at the university. Swift brought along his best friend and business partner Nicholas Logothetis, a student at George Washington University, and the two former world leaders subsequently became mentors to the two students. they founded Concordia as a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that helps develop cross-sector collaboration and public-private partnerships (P3s), in the belief that the most effective and sustainable way to find solutions to pressing global issues is through cooperation between the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Swift is the organization's Chairman and CEO. and focused the first annual Concordia Summit, in September 2011, on combating the root causes of extremism – failing states, poverty, and lack of education – through dialogue and partnering between businesses, governments, and NGOs.

Swift ensured that the organization remained "fiercely nonpartisan".

Advisorships and memberships In addition to being Chairman and CEO of the Concordia Summit, Swift is on the Board of Directors of the Seleni Institute, and a Junior Board Member of HealthCorps. He is an Advisory Council Member of the Millennium Leadership Program at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the Next Generation Leaders' Advisory Council at the McCain Institute for International Leadership. He is on the Global Advisory Board of i2Co School of Transformational Leadership and is Business Advisor to the S.H.E. Summit. He is a member of the National Press Club Washington.

Personal life Swift lives in New York City. He also spends time in Palm Beach, Florida, where his family resides.