Matt Dean is a Policy Fellow at American Experiment North Dakota, where he specializes in health care.
Dean served seven terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives and was elected Majority Leader in 2011. He also served as Chairman of the Health and Human Services Finance Committee.
Dean recently worked for the Heartland Institute as a Senior Fellow for Health Care Policy Outreach. As a health care leader in Minnesota, Dean successfully passed bipartisan reforms to cut fraud and increase patient choice in Medicaid, Medicare and the private marketplace. Dean also created and passed nation-leading legislation to pioneer direct contracting of care by hospitals. As the state’s only architect to be elected to the legislature, Dean served on the state’s Capitol Architectural Board as well as the Governor’s commission for the $330 million Minnesota Capitol restoration.
Matt is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, and together with his wife Dr. Laura Dean, are raising the sixth generation of Deans in the northeast St. Paul area.