Michael Peel has been science editor of the Financial Times since October 2023. He covers all elements of science, from the sub-microscopic to the cosmic.
Michael is a chemistry graduate and has been an FT journalist for more than 25 years, including postings in Lagos, Abu Dhabi, Bangkok and Brussels. He has been seconded in Tokyo as executive editor of Nikkei Asia. He is the author of The Fabulists: How Myth-makers Rule in an Age of Crisis (Paperback 2021) and A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria’s Oil Frontier (2009), which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
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