Matthew J. Brouillette (pronounced “Bree-Yet”) is Founder, President & CEO of Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, Inc.
Matt previously served as President & CEO of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives from 2002 until 2016, growing the free-market think tank from three people with $350,000 in revenue in 2001 to 18 people and a budget of more than $4 million. Matt also served as the Director of Education Policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, and spent seven years teaching history and coaching football and baseball at the high school and middle school levels before his career in public policy. Matt also taught as adjunct faculty in history and economics at the university level.
In 2024, Matt was named to City & State PA’s “Pennsylvania Power 100” list, “which recognizes the most influential people in the public and private sectors statewide.” In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Thomas A. Roe Award, given annually by the State Policy Network (SPN), a national organization that supports state-based organizations fighting for free-market principles. The Roe Award, named for SPN’s founder, is SPN’s highest recognition and honors leaders within the state policy movement “whose achievements have greatly advanced free-market philosophy and policy solutions.” The award “recognizes leadership, innovation, and accomplishment in public policy.”
Matt is a former board member of the Joshua Group, a Harrisburg human services non-profit serving at-risk youth, and the REACH Foundation, a Pennsylvania school choice advocacy organization. He served on an advisory board for the Economics Department at Duquesne University, 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 bachelor of arts (B.A.) in both U.S. History and Education from Cornell College and earned a master of education (M.Ed.) from Azusa Pacific University and a master of arts (M.A.) in history from the University of San Diego. He is ABD in his doctorate (Ph.D.) work in Public Policy and Administration from Walden University. Matt is married and has four grown children.