Michael Peel
Science editor
Michael Peel is the Financial Times’ science editor, covering the subject from the sub-microscopic to the cosmic.
Michael is a chemistry graduate and former FT correspondent in Lagos, Abu Dhabi, Bangkok and Brussels. He has been seconded in Tokyo as executive editor of Nikkei Asia. He has written three books: What Everyone Knows About Britain* (*Except the British); The Fabulists: How Myth-makers Rule in an Age of Crisis; and A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria’s Oil Frontier, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
