Matt Horween is a certified public accountant and served as a commissioned U.S. foreign service officer for the U.S. Agency for International Development from March 1981 to March 1998. He served in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Egypt, Honduras and Barbados, spending about 15 years overseas.
He ended his career stationed in Washington, D.C. as the financial controller for the bureau that controlled the foreign aid program for Europe, including all of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and its former satellite countries. Horween also worked as an auditor for Price Waterhouse & Company in New York City and held various financial management positions for several publically listed corporations. Early in his career, he served as a radio intercept analyst for the U.S. Air Force Security Service.
| May 08, 2013 | 3:30 PM EDT
There's a silver lining in Main Street' suffering.
| Apr 23, 2013 | 7:45 AM EDT
Cuts from the sequester are hitting hard between our borders, while foreign aid gets a free pass.
| Mar 05, 2013 | 7:00 PM EST
Leaders and green groups blind to trade give-aways.
| Apr 24, 2012 | 7:18 AM EDT
Emerging markets get a break, while neither political party will embrace our natural gas advantage.
| Mar 07, 2012 | 10:03 AM EST
Mexico and several other countries have issued 100-year and 50-year bonds.
| Feb 28, 2012 | 11:30 AM EST
Obama must change from acting like a victim of circumstances and embrace natural gas as a bridge fuel.
| Feb 06, 2012 | 6:30 PM EST
Do away with this Rube Goldberg system of employer-based 401(k)s and give everyone an individual account.
| Jan 30, 2012 | 9:30 AM EST
Want to make this country better? Here's how.
| Nov 11, 2011 | 12:20 PM EST
Western lawmakers deign to protect the environment, but what their policies actually do is push the pollution -- and the jobs -- into emerging markets.
| Oct 17, 2011 | 12:30 PM EDT
Maybe Congress sent the protestors to Wall Street to divert attention from what's happening in DC.