Matthew Marriott is a British and Irish Adventurer, World Traveller, Researcher, Geographer, Physicist, Data Analytics/Data Science/Artificial Intelligence/Tech expert, and Financial Services professional. Previously he has worked in the Travel Industry, the City, as a Foreign Language Teacher, and has lived in Egypt and Australia.

Matthew's objective through exploration is not endurance feats alone, all be they valuable in their own way, but scientific discovery and rediscovery of new areas of knowledge to be shared with the international explorer community.

There is a phrase 'solvitur ambulando' - it is solved through walking, and Matthew has walked the Camino de Santiago, across Rainforests (Australia & Indian Ocean), Deserts (Moroccan Sahara & Europe's only true desert, the Tabernas Desert), Mountain ranges (Alps, Alpilles, Atlas Mountains, Tatras, Blue Mountains, Parnassus Mountains, Himalayas), and long distance pilgrimages. He is recognised on the app 'Komoot' as an Expert in 8 areas for Hiking around the World, including Helsinki, Copenhagen, Provence and Attica, Greece. He has planned team hikes to summit points for an International Company, as well as taken part in his local Town's Walking Festival.

From a family of linguists, he also speaks several modern languages from across Europe, Africa and Asia, as well as having studied Ancient languages too. He practices meditation regularly for wellbeing, having studied meditation in a Himalayan Monastery.

He is the Author of the The Renaissance Diet: Eat and drink like Leonardo Da Vinci available on Amazon worldwide, Kindle and other good booksellers in the UK and USA. This started off as personal research into the food which fueled the Italian, English and German Renaissances, and later he decided to share this rediscovered knowledge in a book, which was published in February 2025.

In 2024, he founded World Exploration Data Science (WEDS), to further exploratory discoveries through the use of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, for example reading the Titanic Dataset, or reading a scroll from the Vesuvius eruption over Herculaneum - visit www.worldexplorationdatascience.com to find out more.

Matthew is an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is also a member of the Challenger Society for Marine Research, Globetrotter's Club, Australian Geographic Society and the T. E. Lawrence Society.

As an aspiring travel photographer, he has had his work offered for Editorial through Shutterstock/Getty Images, and he has also been a Contributor for National Geographic on Your Shot.

Matthew works hard, and explores hard. With a career in Financial Services, focused on Data Analytics and Artifical Intelligence, working in Surrey, the City - London, the Midlands, and around the UK. Matthew's passion outside of work is in Exploration, Travel and Adventure. Matthew is able to combine the two with carefully timed annual leave.