Nick Southgate

Nick Southgate was born in an unremarkable part of South London where he grew up in an unremarkable way. He went to Durham University in 1991 where he was seduced by philosophy. After many years of study and teaching he emerged at the turn of the century with a Ph.D. on the metaphysics of personal identity. He then traded in communicating very complex ideas to a very small number of people for communicating simple ideas to millions by joining Ogilvy advertising.

 

Despite devising campaigns to make people pay their tax and listen to Radio 2 more he couldn’t shake the philosophy bug and wrote papers on Aristotle & The Notion of Cool and a version of Descartes’ Meditations for market researchers.

 

Nick is also an omnivorous devourer of music and writes regularly about adventures in modern music for The Wire.