Experience

DeSmog

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Global Investigations Editor

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom I am in charge of leading global investigations at DeSmog, a nonprofit climate news service. I am also a co-host of the Collective Trauma Summit 2022, and write the Resonant World newsletter on healing collective trauma. https://matthewgreenglobal.substack.com/



Thomson Reuters

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reporter on enterprise team

  • May 2021 - Aug 2022

  London I worked on in-depth reporting projects for Reuters as part of a global team of journalists, photographers, videojournalists and graphic artists.

• Climate Change Correspondent

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2021

  London, England, United Kingdom I cover climate change for Reuters, with a focus on finance, the energy transition, social movements, climate diplomacy and science. My latest coverage can be seen here: https://www.reuters.com/journalists/matthew-green



Matthew Green Podcast

• Podcast Host

  • Dec 2020 - Apr 2022

  London What if the problems of the modern world aren’t really about power, money, war or religion? What if they’re rooted in our individual and collective experience of trauma? Journalist Matthew Green has spent years experimenting with alternative approaches to mental health to help with his own periods of depression. In this podcast, Matthew speaks with the pioneering healers, visionaries, thinkers and activists he encountered on his journey. Produced by Tarn Rodgers Johns.



Thomson Reuters

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Reporter

  • Mar 2018 - Dec 2018

  London, England, United Kingdom I worked as a reporter on team that produced the multi award-winning series Ocean Shock: the climate crisis beneath the waves. I filed multi-media longform stories from West Africa and Borneo, and worked on a visual story from Norway. The series won various awards, including from the Society of Environmental Journalists.



- Freelance

• Freelance Journalist

  • 2014 - Mar 2018

  London Filing for publications including the Financial Times, Guardian longreads, Observer, Newsweek, Wired, Vice, Monocle and New Statesman. Regular contributor at literary festivals and on the BBC News Channel radio and BBC World Service. Co-producer of the ‘Enemy Within’ BBC radio documentary on the impact of PTSD on British military wives, which won an Aria award for best factual programme in 2017.



ThomsonReuters

• Special Correspondent, Afghanistan and Pakistan

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

  Islamabad Covered Afghanistan and Pakistan as special correspondent for ThomsonReuters, writing special reports on an untouchable Pakistani drug lord, the 'banker' to the Taliban and a little-reported crackdown on separatists in Baluchistan, as well as a host of other enterprise and news stories.



Financial Times

• West Africa Correspondent

  • Jun 2007 - Jul 2009

  I covered West Africa for the Financial Times as a staff correspondent based in Nigeria, breaking a string of front page scoops on Gazprom’s entry into Nigeria, Shell’s troubles at its main oilfield and China’s wooing of Nigerian banks. Among many other assignments, I explored the relationship between the oil industry and violence and corruption in the Niger Delta in a series of text and video reports, and covered the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.



Thomson Reuters

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• East Africa correspondent

  • 2001 - 2005

  Covered east Africa