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.
For much of the last decade, he covered the European Union from Brussels as reporter and deputy editor with the EUobserver, an EU news daily. He has also worked as the science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria and for the Paris-based International Council for Science.