Matthew J. Brouillette (pronounced “Bree-Yet”) is President and CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives. He was appointed President and CEO by the Board of Directors in February 2002.

Through regular print, television, and talk radio appearances across the Commonwealth, Matt is a prominent voice in statewide public policy debates. He is a regular guest-host on WHP 580 AM in Harrisburg and a regular host on Pittsburgh Business Radio on WMNY 1360 AM where he discusses the intersection of business and politics. He also writes a bi-monthly column for the Central Pennsylvania Business Journal.

Prior to the Commonwealth Foundation, Matt served as the Director of Education Policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan. Before his career in public policy, Matt spent seven years teaching history and coaching football and baseball at the high school and middle school levels. Matt has also taught history and economics at the university level.

Matt is a board member of the REACH Foundation, a Pennsylvania school choice advocacy organization, and the Joshua Group, a Harrisburg nonprofit ministry serving at-risk youth. He is on an advisory board for the Economics Department at Duquesne University.  Previously, Matt served on an advisory council of the E. G. West Centre for Market Solutions in Education at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England, on an advisory committee for the New York City-based Atlantic Legal Foundation, and as an advisory board member for the American Academy for Liberal Education in Washington, D.C., a national organization dedicated to strengthening and promoting liberal education through accreditation and research.

Matt received his undergraduate degree in both U.S. History and Education from Cornell College and earned a masters degree in graduate education from Azusa Pacific University and a masters degree in history from the University of San Diego. He is currently working on his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Walden University. Matt is married and has four children.