He founded the Mind and Matter column in the Wall Street Journal in 2010. He also commissioned the Northumberlandia landform sculpture and country park. He was non-executive chairman of Northern Rock plc and Northern 2 VCT plc. He was founding chairman of the International Centre for Life in Newcastle. With BA and DPhil degrees from Oxford University, Matt Ridley worked for the Economist for nine years as science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor, before becoming a self-employed writer and businessman. He served on the science and technology select committee 2014-2017. He writes a weekly column in The Times (London) and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal.Īs Viscount Ridley, he was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013. His TED talk “When Ideas Have Sex” has been viewed more than two million times. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovation Works. Matt Ridley’s books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards.
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