Anjana Ahuja

Anjana is an opinion writer for the Financial Times, covering science, tech and global health. Recent columns have covered AI ethics, geoengineering, gene-editing, immortality, rising cancer rates in young people, and deep-sea mining. She also reviews books for the FT and the New Statesman. She has won several journalism awards, including two from the Association of British Science Writers for her FT columns.
She has co-authored two books, including the bestseller Spike: The People Vs The Virus, with former government pandemic adviser Sir Jeremy Farrar. Spike, which was serialised in the Times and Sunday Times, was named the Times’ science book of 2021, and shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year and the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing.
Anjana attended a comprehensive school in Essex, read physics at Imperial College London, and then earned a PhD in space physics. After retraining as a journalist, she started her career on The Times. She has been a school governor and a trustee at the charity Sense About Science.