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Adrian Wooldridge (born 1959) is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion.


Life and career

Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship at
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, also at
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, where he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1985. From 1984 to 1985, he was also a
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at the
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. Wooldridge worked at ''
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'' weekly British newspaper for more than 20 years. He was ''The Economist''s
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Bureau chief and the "Lexington" columnist, and was the "Schumpeter" columnist (business, finance and management) until the end of 2016. As of June 2021, he was ''The Economist''s
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and "Bagehot" columnist, which was described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of
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". In September 2021, Wooldridge joined Bloomberg Opinion as the Global Business Columnist.


Bibliography

* *''The Economist'' often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "To those that have" online. * * *''The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World'' (2021) Co-wrote (with
John Micklethwait Richard John Micklethwait (born 11 August 1962) is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, a position he has held since February 2015. A British journalist, he was previously the editor-in-chief of '' The Economist'' from 2006 to 2015. Life and ...
): *''The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus'' (1996) *'' A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization'' (2000) *'' The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea'' (2003) *'' The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America'' (2004) *'' God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World'' (2009) *'' The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State'' (2014) *''The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It'' (2020)


Awards

2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column"


References


External links


Journalist profile
at Bloomberg Opinion
Adrian Wooldridge's final Lexington column
* Living people Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford The Economist people English atheists Place of birth missing (living people) Harkness Fellows Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford University of California, Berkeley alumni 1959 births Gerald Loeb Award winners for Columns, Commentary, and Editorials Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs {{UK-journalist-stub