Alex Singleton is a leader writer and commentator for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk. He is part of the daily PoliticsHome survey of 100 leading opinion formers.
He has previously written for The Guardian, The Daily Express and a range of newsstand magazines.
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, The Moral Maze, 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 is a man of many interests including landscape photography, walking and wine.