Author 'Global Citizen: Grass Roots Activism and High Diplomacy' (Hansib Publication 2022) Wright spent his childhood in Tenby, Wales, and studied European Politics at the University of Reading, and Regional Economic and Urban Planning at the University College London.
[1] In 1994 he became the founding director of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum and its Secretary-General from 1995 to 2016.
Wright has been a member of the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Government on Post-2015 and Habitat III representing global local government organisations at the Addis Ababa Conference on Financing for Development and COP21 Paris and chaired key UN consultations on 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2013–16).
[2] For his work in "international co-operation" and other areas, Wright received an honorary doctorate in Administration from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2013.
[3] Wright published his biographical memoir 'Global Citizen Grass Roots Activism and High Diplomacy: Recollections 1972-2022' with Hansib Publications in 2022[4]