Matthew A. Scogin

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Matthew A. Scogin is an American academic administrator, business leader, and government official who became the 14th president of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, in 2019. [1] Previous to assuming this role, he held leadership positions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the New York Stock Exchange.

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Education

Scogin grew up in Portage, Michigan, and graduated from Hope College in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics. He holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, Scogin became a fellow with the Robert Bosch Foundation in Germany where he studied unemployment and labor market policy.

Career

Government and finance

Scogin returned to the U.S. in 2005 and served as the fiscal policy advisor to Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. From 2006 to 2008, he was a senior advisor to the under secretary of domestic finance at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. [2]

In 2008, Scogin became chief of staff and senior advisor to the CEO of Wachovia Bank where he worked until 2009. For five years (2009–2014), he worked at NYSE Euronext, serving as the senior vice president and chief of staff [3] at the 3,000-person company that ran the New York Stock Exchange as well as five exchanges in Europe.

From 2014 to 2019, Scogin was managing director and chief administrative officer at the global finance advisory firm, Perella Weinberg Partners in New York City. There he oversaw operations, strategy, corporate services, human resources and communications for the firm's 11 global offices.

Academia

Scogin assumed the role of president of Hope College on July 1, 2019, and was inaugurated on September 13, 2019. [4] Since taking office, he has launched a new vision and initiative to fully fund tuition called Hope Forward. [5]

Awards

Scogin received the U.S. Treasury Department Exceptional Service Award in 2008. In 2013, he was one of 19 leaders of New York City to be named a David Rockefeller Fellow by the Partnership for New York City. [6] Hope College recognized him with a Young Alumni Award in 2014. [7]

Public communications

Scogin's plan for Hope Forward has been written about in the Chronicle of Higher Education [8] and Forbes. [9] In 2022, Scogin presented his vision for Hope Forward at the annual SxSW EDU conference in Austin, Texas. [10] He has also appeared on the Mitch Albom radio show, the Whole Person Revolution podcast [11] the Believe! with Doug DeVos podcast, [12] and Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast. [13]

Advisory roles

Matthew Scogin is chair of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and serves on the boards of the Michigan Colleges Alliance and Restore NYC.

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