About Nat

Nat Dyer is a writer, speaker, and editor based in England.

His first book Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray made headlines in the UK, US, France, Spain and Brazil. This included coverage in The Financial Times, The Guardian, and popular YouTube channel Unlearning Economics.

Nat is an experienced public communicator. He has produced events and talks in London, Oxford, Bath, Warwick, and Switzerland. You can see what people are saying about the book here.

Prior to writing, he was an anti-corruption investigator at the award-winning NGO Global Witness. His stories have been reported on by Channel 4 News, the BBC and the New York Times and have sparked government investigations and sanctions in the US, Canada and Congo. He has also worked for Rainforest Foundation UK, IIED and for Promoting Economic Pluralism (PEP).

He’s lived and worked in France and West Africa and has a degree in history and a masters in international politics. He is inspired by the founder of global political economy Susan Strange (1923-1998) and the philosopher Mary Midgley (1919-2018).

His next project shows how biological evolution is at the origin of the ecological age.

He’s a Fellow of the Schumacher Institute and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). Away from books and screens, he loves cooking, getting out into nature, and playing with his kids.

For more on his book Ricardo’s Dream – see here

You can follow Nat on X and Bluesky (@natjdyer), sign up to his Substack below, or send him an email.