Meredith Hooper

Meredith Hooper is an Australian historian and writer.

Early life
She was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. Hooper graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, then studied imperial history at Oxford.

Career
She is a member of Association of British Science Writers, Royal Institution and the British Society for the History of Science.

In 2000, the National Science Foundation and the Congress of the United States awarded Hooper the Antarctica Service Medal. In 2014, Hooper was named the Australian of the Year in the UK.

Personal life
She is the wife of British civil servant Richard Hooper and mother of film director Tom Hooper. After seeing a 2007 reading of an unproduced play, she told her son she thought he should consider pursuing it for a film adaptation; the project became his Academy Award-winning film, The King's Speech.