Mark Woolhouse Author

Mark Woolhouse OBE is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, a post he has held for over twenty years. Well-known and respected in his field, he has received numerous awards and has been introduced on the Today Programme as ‘one of Britain’s most senior scientists’. Since January 2020 he has been heavily involved with the UK’s response to COVID-19.

FOREWORD AUTHOR

Matt Ridley is a British journalist and businessman, best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics. He has written several science books, including The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (1994), Genome (1999), The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) and The Evolution of Everything: How Ideas Emerge (2015). He has been a regular contributor to The Telegraph. He has been a Conservative hereditary peer since 2013, with a seat in the House of Lords.

He is a member of two high-level government advisory bodies: SPI-M for the UK (a subcommittee of SAGE) and the C19 Advisory Group for Scottish Government.