Angela Saini
Science Journalist, Author and Broadcaster (United Kingdom)
Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. She presents radio and television programmes for the BBC, and her writing has appeared across the world, including in New Scientist, Prospect, The Sunday Times, Wired, and National Geographic. Angela's latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was published in May 2019 to enormous critical acclaim, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Foyles Book of the Year. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, was published in 2017, winning the Physics World Book of the Year. In 2020 Angela was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine, and in 2018 she was voted one of the most respected journalists in the UK. She has also received a best feature award from the Association of British Science Writers.
She has a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, and a second Masters in Science and Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Between 2012 and 2013 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has given distinguished and keynote lectures at Yale, Princeton, Oxford, among other notable institutions.
Angela is an advisory board member of the Royal Institution and the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry and is on the board of the Association of British Science Writers and a member of the RSA's Disinformation Advisory Group.