Ryan was born and grew up in Northern Ireland, meaning he was forevermore cursed with people asking him to say 'how now brown cow.'

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He studied English at university and then completed a post-graduate teaching qualification. He spent a decade teaching English in state schools in Essex and London, the last three years as an assistant headteacher.

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In 2016 he left teaching to study for a master's in Broadcast Journalism. He worked on Good Morning Britain and ITV News and spent the night in a leisure centre in Wakefield for ITV on election night in 2017. One of his more bizarre experiences was working undercover for Deliveroo, wearing a hidden camera, to investigate how they treat their workers.

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For the last three-and-a-half years he has worked as a producer on The Jeremy Vine Show at Radio 2. The job has seen him having a difficult conversation with David Attenborough, taking part in a competetive paper shredding competition and introducing Bruno Tonioli to an expert in river dredging.

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In his spare time he enjoys trying to find the sweet spot between baking and eating cakes and going running. He has been a volunteer for The Samaritans and Switchboard LGBT+ helpline. He is good at writing in the third person.

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