Matthew Baker

Matthew Baker is the Director of Research at Rebuild Local News. He previously served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he managed research and evaluation projects to strengthen independent media in struggling democracies around the world. Previously, he conducted focus groups, surveys, data visualizations, and statistical analysis at the International Republican Institute, Dexis Consulting, and the Legatum Institute. He served as a volunteer for Teach for Myanmar and as a copy editor at the Khartoum Monitor in Sudan. He grew up in the United Kingdom, attended the University of Oxford and holds a masters degree from Columbia University, and currently lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland.