5 Minutes Alone… With Matthew Christian Davis
Some people do it all. Scholar, soldier, a man handed his MBA from the European School of Economics by Nobel Laureate Michael Spence, PhD, international marketing consultant, etcetera, etcetra, etcetera (yes, he’s actually earned all three etceteras - just see for yourself) Matthew Christian Davis, has turned author and put his elaborately impressive resume behind BEST OF DC: DEFINING CHANGE IN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP (BEST OF DC, VOLUME 1, INAUGURAL EDITION). This latest volume in the ‘Best Of’ series, presented by Global Village Consulting, offers an inside look at the actual cogs - the businesses, services, and people - that make a city, country, or region move.
We’d like to thank him for taking the time to be part of our “5 Minutes Alone” interview series.
AuthorScoop: What was your very first publication credit?
Matthew: BEST OF DUBAI, 2005 - showcasing sustainability and economic development in the United Arab Emirates.
AuthorScoop: Tell us about your latest release..
Matthew: BEST OF DC - ‘Defining Change’ in a new era of American Leadership, is a hardcover 6-pound 
365-page yearbook with 27 chapters that focus on each economic sector of industry and culture in the United States… each chapter has a Leader Preface, followed by five illustrated case studies of organizations and individuals who are making positive contributions to society with major community impact.
AuthorScoop: Aside from your own hard work, who (or what) else do you feel has contributed to your success?
Matthew: The human capital and sweat equity that made this project a success, are the men and women who live passionately by doing what they love - and love what they do for work, by working to make positive change in America.
AuthorScoop: Tell us about the legwork involved in researching a project like this?
Matthew: Worked 90+ hours/week over the course of two years to ‘weed-out-worst’ by researching, writing, designing, and editing draft material for BEST OF DC… ‘weeding-out-the-worst’ in order to discover what ‘brings-out-the-best-in-us’ as a community. Analysis included 
research from history/mission/vision of officials from major government, military, contractors, and businesses; including federal agency directors, governor’s offices, universities, bar associations, regional planning organizations, charities, foundations, embassies, and international trade and commerce organizations.
AuthorScoop: Finally, what’s next?
Matthew: Continue the momentum, but build a team of qualified professionals who can collectively work together to build on what I created - as online eBooks, as webisodes on interactive awareness server on GVPedia.com, and pilot an investigative journalism TV series with compelling episodes on a major television network.
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BEST OF DC is available for online preview, and in hardcopy through Global Village Partnerships, and on Amazon.com.
AuthorScoop
April 20th, 2011 at 11:34 am
Matt Davis is a complete fraud. His “degree” from the European School of Economics was handed to him by a postal service employee! (He paid for it online and I don’t mean that he studied online.) He proudly admits to being friends with the Salahis (White House crashers) because he is desperate to get his name out there. The man is a JOKE!
April 21st, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Hi John, great timing! I’m actually free during my lunch hour to address your post, and thank you for your interest in my profiled article. I welcome your comments, concerns, compliments, or even your complaints… and hope that you are not overwhelmed with explaining my PVQs (Professional Vocational Qualifications) in response to your accusations. Believe me, I’ve heard it before and some of my harshest critics have become my strongest supporters. I was even asked to speak recently at George Mason University for “Writing Across the Media” program, please see PRESSedent.com and click ‘Education Forums’ or ‘Journalism Case Study’ to learn more. My ‘background is backwards’ and unconventional in many ways, so confusion by the conventional reader is only natural and I do recognize your misunderstanding my life’s progression over the years.
I attended European School of Economics in Lucca Italy after the program was approved by Department of Education, Department of Veterans Affairs, funded by the Montgomery GI Bill. I previously served in the US Army in Italy at SETAF (Southern European Task Force) as a soldier and then was honorably discharged, then I worked for the government as a DAC (Department of Army Civilian) for 6yrs and stayed in Europe working in IT career path, finally using my remaining military education benefits so I applied to ESE and the program was approved under the 2003 International Studies in Higher Education (ISHEA). The school’s website is http://www.UniESE.it if you’d like to learn more, and what got me excited most was learning that Economic Nobel Prize Laureates award the undergraduate/graduate degrees in person! Mine was personally awarded to me by 2001 Recipient Dr. Michael Spence, as well as Nicholas Negroponte from MIT was a guest speaker there as well on Lake Como in October 2004. My thesis focused on emerging markets in developing countries, and the competitive edge of knowledge based economies… which illustrated economic research was the basis for what would later become annual hardcover books (or yearbooks) for different countries around the world, and Michaele Salahi was one of the MCs at my book launch “BEST OF DC: ‘Defining Change’ in American Leadership” at National Press Club - here’s the link for the online eBook;
http://www.GVPedia.com/USA/Washington.aspx
Best regards,
MCD