Leigh Phillips

Leigh Phillips is a British-Canadian science journalist and commentator on European affairs whose work has appeared in Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Jacobin, among other outlets. Much of his writing lies at the crossroads of science, economics and politics, championing a progressive, democratic modernity against its critics right, left and green. He spent much of the last decade in Brussels covering the European Union as reporter and deputy editor with the EUobserver, an EU news daily. In 2013, he returned to the University of Victoria, Canada, where he works as science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.