Adrian Hornsby

Adrian is an award-winning writer across a diverse portfolio of forms and interests, ranging from reporting and impact assessment to international development, urbanism, and hi-tech music theatre. His books include The Good Analyst (‘the Bible of social impact,’ COO, Big Society Capital) and The Chinese Dream (‘an absorbing encyclopaedic monster of a book,’ Icon); theatre includes As Big As The Sky (with Ai Weiwei, ‘an opera of striking invention,’ The Wire). His groundbreaking opera for binaural headphones, The Hearing, is due to premiere at the Holland Festival in 2021. Adrian works with Falcon Windsor on corporate reporting and other writing projects.