Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley did research in zoology at Oxford before becoming a journalist. He worked for the Economist for eight years and has been a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph since 1993. He is the author of Warts and All, about US presidential politics, and The Origins of Virtue, which is published by Penguin. He is chairman of a landmark Millennium project, the International Centre for Life. He lives in Northumberland and is married to a reader in physiology at the University of Newcastle.