Matthew Syed

Matthew Syed is an English writer, radio presenter and former table tennis player who competed for England and Great Britain, winning the Commonwealth men's singles title three times and appearing at the Olympics in Barcelona and Sydney. He has worked for The Times since 1999 and writes popular science and self-help books, including Black Box Thinking, a book about learning from failure, and Bounce, on the science of success. His more recent collection, Rebel Ideas, gathers his essays.