Clive M. Cookson

Clive Cookson has worked in science journalism for the whole of his professional life. He graduated with a First Class degree in chemistry from Oxford University in 1974. After journalism training on the Luton Evening Post, he became science correspondent of the Times Higher Education Supplement in London and then spent four years in Washington as American Editor of THES. He returned to London in 1981 as technology correspondent of the Times and moved to BBC Radio as science correspondent in 1983. He joined the Financial Times as technology editor in 1987 and was Science Editor of the FT from 1991 to 2023. Clive is now the FT’s senior science writer. He has won numerous science journalism awards, including British Science Writer of the Year 2022.