
Matthew P. Goodman is senior vice president for economics and holds the Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS. The CSIS Economics Program, which he directs, focuses on international economic policy and global economic governance. Before joining CSIS in 2012, Goodman served as director for international economics on the National Security Council staff, helping the president prepare for global and regional summits, including the G20, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and East Asia Summit. Prior to the White House, Goodman was senior adviser to the undersecretary for economic affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Before joining the Obama administration in 2009, he worked for five years at Albright Stonebridge Group, where he was managing director for Asia. From 2002 to 2004, he served at the White House as director for Asian economic affairs on the National Security Council staff. Prior to that, he spent five years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., heading the bank’s government affairs operations in Tokyo and London. From 1988 to 1997, he worked as an international economist at the U.S. Treasury Department, including five years as financial attaché at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo.
Goodman holds an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C.
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South Korea Seeks to Join Efforts to Counter China's Economic Coercion
Matthew P. Goodman in Voice of America — May 25, 2023
Australia has faced down China’s trade bans, and emerged stronger
Matthew P. Goodman in The Economist — May 23, 2023
For Biden, Crisis at Home Complicates Diplomacy Abroad
Matthew P. Goodman in The New York Times — May 17, 2023
G-7 leaders likely to focus on the war in Ukraine and tensions in Asia at summit in Hiroshima
Matthew P. Goodman in Associated Press — May 17, 2023
Biden to leave Wednesday for shortened overseas trip to Japan
Matthew P. Goodman in CNN — May 17, 2023
China’s economic coercion: Jujitsu required
Matthew P. Goodman and Matthew Reynolds in The Hill — March 29, 2023
Chinese Pressure Tactics Against Other Countries Largely Ineffective, Study Finds
Matthew P. Goodman and Matthew Reynolds in The Wall Street Journal — March 21, 2023
U.S. to launch talks on partnership with 11 Western Hemisphere nations
Matthew P. Goodman in The Washington Post — January 27, 2023
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Global Infrastructure Competition: Belt, Road, and Beyond
U.S.-Indo-Pacific Conference 2023
Event by Gregory B. Poling , Ambassador Ted Osius , Victor Cha , William Alan Reinsch , Matthew P. Goodman , and Stephanie Segal — June 14, 2023
CSDS-CSIS Transatlantic Dialogue on the Indo-Pacific
Event by Christopher B. Johnstone , Luis Simón , and Gunnar Wiegand , Kurt Campbell , Michael Reiterer , Matthew P. Goodman , Shihoko Goto , Ramon Pacheco Pardo , Emily Benson , Eva Pejsova , Céline Pajon , Yuki Tatsumi , Jeffrey Hornung — June 7, 2023
Matthew Goodman, CSIS: a dramatic G7 Hiroshima Summit
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Matthew P. Goodman — June 2, 2023

Assessing IPEF’s New Supply Chains Agreement
Critical Questions by Aidan Arasasingham , Emily Benson , Matthew P. Goodman , and William Alan Reinsch — May 31, 2023
G7 Gives First Definition to ‘Economic Security’
Commentary by Matthew P. Goodman — May 31, 2023
G7 Hiroshima Summit Outcomes
Critical Questions by Hannah Grothusen , Matthew P. Goodman , Christopher B. Johnstone , and Federico Steinberg — May 23, 2023
Press Briefing: Previewing G7 Leaders’ Summit in Hiroshima
Event by Matthew P. Goodman , Christopher B. Johnstone , Maria Snegovaya , and Gregory C. Allen — May 9, 2023
Allies and Geopolitical Competition in the Indo-Pacific Region
Event by and John J. Hamre , Michael J. Green , Peter Dean , Miah Hammond-Errey , Victor Cha , Charles Edel , John Kunkel , Hayley Channer , Gerard DiPippo , Emily Benson , Matthew P. Goodman — May 4, 2023
Countering China’s Trade and Investment Agenda: Opportunities for American Leadership
Congressional Testimony by Matthew P. Goodman — April 18, 2023