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

Wooldridge was educated atBalliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowship atAll Souls College, also atOxford University, where he received adoctorate in philosophy in 1985. From 1984 to 1985, he was also aHarkness Fellow at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.^[2]

Wooldridge worked atThe Economist weekly British newspaper for more than 20 years.^[3] He wasThe Economist'sWashington 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 wasThe Economist'spolitical editor and "Bagehot" columnist,^[5] which was described as "an analysis of British life and politics, in the tradition ofWalter Bagehot".^[6]

In September 2021, Wooldridge joinedBloomberg Opinion as the Global Business Columnist.^[3][1]

• Wooldridge, Adrian (1994).Measuring the mind : education and psychology in England c.1860-1990. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521395151.
• — (18 April 2015)."Family companies". Special Report.The Economist. Vol. 415, no. 8934.^[7]
• — (18 April 2015). "A very British business : some lessons from the success of Britain's elite private schools". Schumpeter.The Economist. Vol. 415, no. 8934. p. 56.
• Greenspan, Alan; Wooldridge, Adrian (2018).Capitalism in America: A History. New York:Penguin Press.
• The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (2021)

Co-wrote (withJohn Micklethwait):

• The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (1996)
• A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Promise of Globalization (2000)
• The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea (2003)
• The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America (2004)
• God is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World (2009)
• The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State (2014)
• The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It (2020)

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

• Journalist profile at Bloomberg Opinion
• Adrian Wooldridge's final Lexington column
• Appearances onC-SPAN

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