Adrian Wooldridge

Adrian Wooldridge is the Management Editor and 'Schumpeter' columnist for The Economist magazine. Until July 2009 he was The Economist's Washington Bureau Chief and 'Lexington' columnist.

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 at Berkeley.

Publications

Co-wrote (with fellow Economist journalist John Micklethwait):

• The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus
• The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
• A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization
• The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
• God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World

External links

• Journalist profile at The Economist
• Adrian Wooldridge's final Lexington column