Matthieu Salomon
Acting Governance Programs Director, Senior Governance Officer, NRGI
Matthieu has worked on governance and anticorruption issues for more than 15 years, including more than 10 years based in Southeast Asia. Before NRGI, he worked in particular for Vietnam’s Towards Transparency (TI official Vietnamese affiliate) and for the Embassy of Sweden/SIDA in Hanoi.
At NRGI, between 2012 and 2017 Matthieu oversaw a three-year USAID-funded partnership project on extractive industry governance in Southeast-Asia; and led NRGI’s new program in Myanmar. After, based in France, he has continued to support NRGI’s work on anticorruption, EITI and civil society partnerships, in Francophone Africa, the Middle East and North Africa. Matthieu is now leading NRGI’s work on anticorruption and, since October 2022, is Acting Governance Programs Director.
Matthieu graduated from Sciences Po and from the Sorbonne (University Paris I) in history and political science.