Executive Director

Mathieu Lefevre is the Executive Director of the New Cities Foundation. Mathieu oversees the day to day operations of the Foundation and leads its development. Previously, Mathieu worked for the World Bank in the area of governance and as a political officer for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, serving in Afghanistan and the Middle East. Mathieu is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the London School of Economics. He is a citizen of France and the United States and has published articles in The Economist magazine, the Foundation for Strategic Research, the French Almanac of International Relations and the Afghanistan Analysts Network.