Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed is an English writer, journalist, and radio presenter, as well as a former table tennis player who represented Great Britain at the 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games and was a three-time men's singles champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. A graduate with first-class honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, he has worked as a journalist for The Times since 1999 and co-founded Matthew Syed Consulting. His books include 'Black Box Thinking', 'Bounce', and 'Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking'.