Ehsan Masood is a science journalist. Since 2019 he has been Nature’s Editor for Editorials and also has responsibility for the journal’s news coverage from Africa and the Middle East. Ehsan taught science and innovation policy at Imperial College for a decade until 2017 and is the author of a number of books.
His latest book is GDP: The world’s most powerful formula and why It must now change (Icon, 2021). You can catch the essence of his argument in this interview on ‘The Spark’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ynb8.
Ehsan also makes documentary programmes for BBC Radio 4. They include: ‘Science: Right or Left?’, which explored why people who vote for right-wing parties are becoming less trusting of evidence and expertise: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037tsw0