Roger Riddell

Roger Riddell was born in Birmingham, England in 1947.

He is by training a development economist. He lived and worked in Zimbabwe for 12 years.

In 2007, he published his last major academic work Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

In 2013, Roger cycled 3,500 miles across the United States, coast to coast, with his daughter Becky and he is now semi-retired. He lives with his wife Abby near Oxford and they have three grown-up daughters who, when the family was not living in Zimbabwe, Zambia or the United States, grew up in north London.

His first novel, Tapestries of Difference, was published in October 2018.