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Adrian Wooldridge (born 1959) is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. [1]

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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. [2]

Wooldridge worked at The Economist weekly British newspaper for more than 20 years. [3] He was The Economist's Washington Bureau chief and the "Lexington" columnist, and was the "Schumpeter" columnist (business, finance and management) until the end of 2016. [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]

Bibliography

Co-wrote (with John Micklethwait):

Awards

2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column" [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Adrian Wooldridge - Bloomberg". Bloomberg Opinion . Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  2. "Speaker profile at Leigh Bureau". Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
  3. 1 2 Roush, Chris (1 September 2021). "Bloomberg Opinion hires Wooldridge as global business columnist". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
  4. Rajan, Amol (19 December 2016). "New Bagehot columnist for the Economist". BBC News . Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  5. "Adrian Wooldridge". The Economist . Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  6. "What can Britain today learn from Walter Bagehot?". The Economist. 3 January 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  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. "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2017 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management . 27 June 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2019.