Adrian Wooldridge

[1] 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.

[2] Wooldridge worked at The Economist weekly British newspaper for more than 20 years.

[4] As of June 2021, he was The Economist's political editor and "Bagehot" columnist,[5] which was described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition of Walter Bagehot".

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

[3][1] Co-wrote (with John Micklethwait): 2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column"[8]