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British journalist and author From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adrian Wooldridge (born 1959) is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion.[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. 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]
Co-wrote (with John Micklethwait):
2017 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary for "Creative Destruction: The Schumpeter Column"[8]
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