Matt Ridley's C.V.

Matt Ridley BA DPhil DSc FRSL FMedSci
Born 7.2.1958, Northumberland. Married (to Professor Anya Hurlbert) since 1989. Two children .

Education: Eton College (1970-75); Magdalen College, Oxford (BA 1st class, zoology), D Phil (zoology, 1983).

Employment: The Economist 1983-92, science correspondent, science and technology editor, Washington correspondent, American editor.

Co-founder and Chairman, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne (1996-2003);

Other journalism: freelance weekly columnist for Sunday Telegraph 1993-1996 and Daily Telegraph 1996-2000; articles and book reviews for The Times, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, New Scientist, Prospect, New Statesman, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Natural History and other publications.

Prizes:
Welch Prize for best zoology degree, Oxford University 1979
Glaxo science writer’s award for best science article1983
Aventis prize for science books (short-listed four times)
Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction (short-listed) 2000
Los Angeles Time Book Award (short-listed) 2001
National Academies Book Award 2004
Davis Prize for the history of science, US History of Science Society 2007

Honours:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1999)
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2003)
Honorary doctorate of science, Buckingham University
Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
Honorary President, the International Centre for Life
Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law, Newcastle University
Honorary Doctorate, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Books:
Warts and All; Penguin, 1989
The Red Queen; Penguin, 1993
Down to Earth; Institute of Economic Affairs, 1995
Down to Earth II; Institute of Economic Affairs, 1996
The Origins of Virtue; Penguin, 1996
The future of disease; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997
Genome; 4th Estate, 1999
Best American Science Writing (editor); Harper Collins 2002
Nature via Nurture; Harper Collins, 2003
Francis Crick; Harper Collins, 2006