Alumni Update: Matthew Mirliani '16

Matthew Samuel Mirliani graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 with a major in Government and a minor in History. His senior seminars for his Government major were focused on U.S. foreign policy. For his Culminating Experience, he wrote on the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian revolution; the paper analyzed excerpts from declassified embassy archives, contextualizing them within an existing conversation on the U.S.'s inability to understand the nuances of Iranian politics and society. 

After Dartmouth, Matthew worked as a consultant within the Risk Advisory practice of Deloitte & Touche, starting in Charlotte, North Carolina and then transferring to the New York City office. His work was mainly regulatory risk consulting for financial institutions, with a particular focus on Anti-Money Laundering - stemming from his interest in national security. In late 2018, Matthew joined Goldman Sachs as part of the Global Markets division; he pivoted to client onboarding in 2019, and is currently an Associate in the Franchise New Business group.

Since Dartmouth, Matthew has traveled to Korea, Thailand, Japan, Iceland, France, and Georgia (the country); within the New York area he has lived in Queens, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. In 2018 he performed an original one-man show at The Tank, a nonprofit theater in Manhattan, and in 2020 and 2021 his music video "Keep Me" (filmed in Queens and Jersey City) screened at several online indie film festivals. His experience with research papers at Dartmouth shapes his documentary-style approach to his short films, one of which debuted at The Tank in 2021, and a second one (which is forthcoming) which was largely filmed in Tbilisi, Georgia.