Journalism

• Contributing science and technology reporter for The Financial Times special reports desk (2017-present) on topics including environmental monitoring, biotech, robotics and healthcare.

 

• Contributing editor to Sifted, an FT-backed media venture covering European start-ups.

 

• Deputy editor for bimonthly magazine This is Africa (2012-2014), covering business, technology and economics.

Europe’s Gaia-X looks to challenge Big Tech’s cloud dominance

A European collaboration aimed at challenging the cloud dominance of US Big Tech groups is gathering pace, in a move that its advocates hope will give companies on the continent more control over their data.

Academics edge closer to dream of research on cloud platforms

Access to data and greater computational power would help AI researchers keep pace with the private sector

Africa’s health-tech start-ups find support from incubator cash

A $50,000 seed investment has allowed a Kenyan pathology business to spread across the continent.

Pet training apps are hoping to be the Duolingo for dogs

Meet the startups shaking up the pet training industry with apps and ideas borrowed from successful human tech.

Europe’s proptech players see big trends moving in their favour

Covid-19, the climate challenge and (maybe) rising interest rates are among tides turning for the growing property technology market