Matthew Kaminski is co-founder of POLITICO Europe, a pan-European publication created in 2014 through a joint-venture with Axel Springer, and former editor-in-chief of POLITICO from 2019-2023. He’s currently editor-at-large, writing regularly on global politics.

Starting as a freelancer from Eastern Europe before his senior year in college, Matt has reported on international affairs, politics and business on and off for the past quarter century. He covered the former Soviet Union for the Financial Times and Economist from 1994 to 1997, and in 1997 joined The Wall Street Journal in Brussels as a correspondent. He held various writing and editing roles with the Journal in Brussels, Paris and New York. In 2004, Matt was awarded the Peter Weitz Prize by the German Marshall Fund for a series of stories on the European Union. His coverage of the Ukrainian crisis won an Overseas Press Club prize in 2015. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary that year.

He joined POLITICO in late 2014 to become the founding editor of the European edition, which launched in April 2015. The publication became the “most influential” on European affairs and grew quickly. He moved to Washington in the fall of 2018 to become the editor-in-chief, overseeing all of POLITICO’s editorial operations.

Matt was born in Warsaw, Poland, and moved to the U.S. at the age of 8. He grew up in Washington. He holds degrees from Yale College and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He lives in Washington with his wife, Alexandra Geneste, and their two children.