Alex Singleton is a political commentator and technology writer who has written for The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Daily Express, and for wide a range of magazines. He is a contributor to The Daily Telegraph’s Brassneck blog. In the IT press, he has written for titles like Personal Computer World, ComputerActive, Linux Format, Macworld and Computer Shopper.

Alex is a regular commentator on the television and radio, and has appeared on programmes and stations such as the BBC’s Newsnight, the Today Programme, CNN, Al Jazeera, Channel 4 News, CNBC, Bloomberg and Sky News.

As President of the Globalisation Institute, he was credited with the political adoption of enterprise-based solutions to poverty and has been described by Lord Malloch Brown (former Deputy General Secretary of the UN) as “the high priest of globalisation”. His research on microfinance was launched by David Cameron. He is also the author of Trade Justice or Free Trade?, which was discussed in a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and co-author of Positive Environmentalism: A Convenient Truth. He was formerly the Research Director of the Adam Smith Institute.

Alex’s interests include photography and early jazz.