ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE este corespondentul revistei The Economist la Washington. A colaborat la numeroase publicații, printre care New Statesman, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Financial Times și Times Literary Supplement. A studiat la Oxford, la Balliol College (istorie modernă) și All Souls College (unde a obținut doctoratul în 1985).
John Micklethwait și Adrian Wooldridge sunt coautorii mai multor cărți: The Witch Doctors: Making Sense of the Management Gurus (1996), care a câștigat în 1997 Financial Times / Booz Allen Global Business Book Award, A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization (1998), 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).
Adrian Wooldridge a mai publicat: Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, 1860–1990 (1994), Meritocracy and the „Classless Society“ (1995), Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World – for Better and for Worse (2011; ediție revăzută și adăugită a cărții The Witch Doctors, cu un cuvânt înainte de John Micklethwait), The Great Disruption: How Business is Coping with Turbulent Times (2015).