Matthew Campbell
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Fellow, 2025
Matthew Campbell is an award-winning reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of The Man Who Stole the Gods: A True Story of War, Obsession, and a Global Art Conspiracy. His previous book, Dead in the Water—co-authored with Kit Chellel—was selected as a “Book of the Year” by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Times.
Campbell has reported from more than 25 countries on topics including crime, corruption, terrorism, economics, public health, and the environment. His work has been recognized with some of the most prestigious honors in journalism. He and Chellel won Gerald Loeb and Overseas Press Club awards for their coverage of Goldman Sachs’s business dealings with Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi, and he has also received National Press Club, SOPA, and SABEW awards for feature and investigative reporting.
He is a seven-time Loeb finalist in addition to his win with Chellel, and in 2022 was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for public interest reporting. Campbell was also a 2025 Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Fellow at Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½. Born in Canada, he was educated at Yale, where he graduated with a BA in political science, and at Oxford, where he received an MPhil in politics. He lives in Singapore with his family.
Selected Work
- : An investigation for Bloomberg Businessweek of alleged murder plots against Sikh activists living overseas, and how they created an unprecedented crisis in relations between the U.S. and India.
- : An excerpt from the book Dead in the Water.
- : An investigation in Bloomberg Businessweek of safety and environmental failures in the nickel industry, which is critical to expanding production of electric cars.
- : An investigation in Bloomberg Businessweek of the unsolved murders of Barry and Honey Sherman, pharmaceutical billionaires who were found mysteriously strangled in their home.
- : An investigation in Bloomberg Businessweek into how R&B star Pras Michel came to be part of a covert Chinese influence campaign–before running headfirst into the FBI.
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