Matthew Reed

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Biography

Matthew is chief executive of Marie Curie, a position he had help since February 2019.

He has over 20 years of executive and non-exec board-level experience, including as a CEO since 2010, in education, higher education, health and social care, international development, poverty eradication, humanitarian relief, young people and children’s services, medical research, public policy, and homelessness.

He previously served as chief executive of The Children’s Society, chief executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and a director at Christian Aid.

Matthew is passionate about social justice and inclusion and ensuring that everyone has the very best chance to thrive and flourish in all aspects of their life. This includes ensuring that everyone who is dying – and their families and loved ones – have the very best care and support they can.

Matthew is also chair of trustees of New Horizon Youth Centre which provides unique, holistic support for young people in London experiencing homelessness, a lay member of council (non-exec) at the University of Liverpool, and board member of St George’s House Windsor.

Matthew has a BEng degree in engineering and management from the University of Nottingham, BA and MA in theology from the University of Oxford, and a MSc in management from the University of Surrey, alongside undertaking courses in executive education: launching new ventures at Harvard Business School
and Oxford strategic leadership programme at Said Business School, University of Oxford.

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