Anjana Ahuja is a science columnist at the Financial Times in London, writing a weekly column on science, technology and global health.
She was one of the first journalists, in early January 2020, to cover the emergence of a novel pneumonia in Wuhan. She subsequently co-authored a widely acclaimed book, Spike: The Virus versus The People, with Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar. It was named as The Times’ top science book of 2021 and has been shortlisted for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Writing. Anjana is a trustee of Sense About Science, a small charity which champions the use of evidence in policymaking and public life.
She has a PhD in space physics from Imperial College London.
