Matthew Campbell is an award-winning reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek. His first book, Dead in the Water, written with Kit Chellel, was called a 'masterpiece' by the New York Times and selected as a Book of the Year by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Times. A 2025 Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Fellow at New America, he has reported from more than twenty-five countries on crime, corruption, terrorism, economics, and the environment. His work has earned some of journalism’s highest honours, including awards from the Gerald Loeb Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, the National Press Club, SOPA, and SABEW for both feature and investigative reporting. He lives in Singapore with his family.

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