Matthew Aleshire is director on the Milken Institute’s Geo-Economics Initiative and helps to lead the work around the topics of climate change, the global financial architecture, and international political economy. Aleshire previously focused on global policy and government engagement for the Milken Institute, overseeing efforts to advance policy solutions across the Institute’s research and convenings. Prior to joining the Institute, he worked on a number of issue-advocacy campaigns for a variety of organizations. He spent six years at a public affairs firm in Washington, D.C., organizing campaigns for clients, including trade associations, nonprofit organizations and Fortune 500 companies. This included a focus on policies to enhance the resilience of capital markets liquidity, increase deployment of clean energy technologies, as well as on international trade issues involving taxation, remittances, and e-commerce. Following his undergraduate work at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, he earned a master’s degree in international affairs at the American University of Paris, focusing on the politics of sovereign debt default.