Adrian Wooldridge Explained

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 All Souls College, also at Oxford University, where he received a doctorate in philosophy in 1985. From 1984 to 1985, he was also a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Wooldridge worked at The Economist weekly British newspaper for more than 20 years. He was The Economists Washington Bureau chief and the "Lexington" columnist, and was the "Schumpeter" columnist (business, finance and management) until the end of 2016.^[2] As of June 2021, he was The Economists political editor and "Bagehot" columnist,^[3] which was described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of Walter Bagehot".^[4]

In September 2021, Wooldridge joined Bloomberg Opinion as the Global Business Columnist.^{[5] [6]}

Bibliography

• Book: Wooldridge, Adrian . Measuring the mind : education and psychology in England c.1860-1990 . registration . Cambridge . . 1994 . 9780521395151 .
• News: Wooldridge, Adrian . 1 . 18 April 2015 . Family companies . Special Report . The Economist . 415 . 8934 . ^[7]
• News: Wooldridge, Adrian . 1 . 18 April 2015 . [<!--access-date=--> A very British business : some lessons from the success of Britain's elite private schools ]. Schumpeter . The Economist . 415 . 8934 . 56.
• Book: Capitalism in America: A History . Greenspan . Alan . Wooldridge . Adrian. Alan Greenspan . New York . . 2018.
• The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (2021)

Co-wrote (with John Micklethwait):

• The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (1996)
• A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization (2000)
• (2003)
• The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004)
• God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World (2009)
• (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"^[8]

External links

• Journalist profile at Bloomberg Opinion
• Adrian Wooldridge's final Lexington column

Notes and References

1. Web site: Speaker profile at Leigh Bureau . 2008-08-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121028113447/http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=377 . 2012-10-28 . dead .
2. Web site: Rajan . Amol . 2016-12-19 . New Bagehot columnist for the Economist . 2021-10-29 . BBC News.
3. News: Adrian Wooldridge . . 19 June 2021.
4. News: What can Britain today learn from Walter Bagehot? . The Economist . 3 January 2020 . 19 June 2021.
5. Web site: Roush . Chris . 2021-09-01 . Bloomberg Opinion hires Wooldridge as global business columnist . 2022-04-27 . Talking Biz News.
6. Web site: Adrian Wooldridge - Bloomberg . 2022-04-27 . Bloomberg Opinion.
7. The Economist often changes the title of a print article when it is published online. This article is titled "To those that have" online.
8. Web site: UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners . 27 June 2017 . . 31 January 2019.