Matthew is an experienced barrister and a senior fellow at Monash Law, responsible for leading the Eleos Justice initiative’s UN Advocacy Project. In 2019, he was one of Australia’s civil society representatives to the UN Human Rights Council and worked alongside Australia’s Permanent Mission to the UN in order to secure the Council’s adoption of the Resolution on the Question of the Death Penalty. Matthew is a former president of Reprieve Australia (now the Capital Punishment Justice Project) and was responsible for expanding their work to Asia whilst maintaining legacy projects in the US. He was a co-founder of the Mercy Campaign, an online movement calling for clemency in death penalty proceedings within Indonesia. Matthew continues to serve as a board member of the Capital Punishment Justice Project and he is also a delegate to the Steering Committee of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the peak international body for anti-death penalty advocates.
