| Birth Date: | 4 July 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Oakville, Ontario, Canada |
| Eric Monkman | |
| Alma Mater: | University of Waterloo Wolfson College, Cambridge |
Eric Monkman (born)[1] is a Canadian academic and television personality based in the United Kingdom.
Monkman comes from Oakville, Ontario, Canada. His father, a doctor, died when Eric was thirteen. Monkman obtained his first degree from the University of Waterloo[2] and then studied for a master's degree in economics at Wolfson College, Cambridge, when he captained the college's University Challenge team. The team lost in the 2017 final to a team from Balliol College, Oxford.[3]
His girlfriend, Jiang Na teaches law at Beijing Normal University. Viewers described him as the most intense contestant ever: a reviewer called him an "unexpected hero".
Together with Bobby Seagull, Monkman presented the BBC Radio 4 programme Monkman and Seagull’s Polymathic Adventure, and wrote the quiz book The Monkman and Seagull Quiz Book published by Eyewear Publishing in October 2017.[4] They presented Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain, a four-part series on BBC Two, first broadcast in 2018.[5] The show was commissioned for a second series in 2019.[6]