{{Short description|British journalist}} {{about||the human resources professional|Michael A. Peel}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} '''Michael Peel''' is a British journalist. He has written for various publications including ''Granta'', ''New Republic'', ''New Statesman'' and ''London Review of Books''. He is currently science editor of the ''Financial Times''.
==Early life==
Peel grew up in Torquay, Devon, where he lived for about seven years, from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. His mother was head teacher at the primary school which he attended there.
==Career==
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied chemistry, Peel joined the Financial Times in 1996. From 2002-2005, Peel was the West Africa correspondent for the Financial Times, based in Lagos, Nigeria. From March 2005 until 2006, Peel was an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, and a freelance journalist. He was appointed legal correspondent of the Financial Times in 2006,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/8/articles/3079.php |title=Archived copy |access-date=30 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306142333/https://www.journalism.co.uk/8/articles/3079.php |archive-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and has been middle east correspondent for the newspaper since January 2011.
Michael Peel's first book, ''A Swamp Full of Dollars'' (2009) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2009.
==Bibliography==
* Peel, Michael (2006). ''Nigeria-Related Financial Crime and its Links with Britain''. Chatham House Report. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091009165554/http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/410/] * Peel, Michael (2009). ''A Swamp Full of Dollars: pipelines and paramilitaries at Nigeria's oil frontier''. London: I.B. Tauris. * Peel, Michael (2019). ''The fabulists: the world's new rulers, their myths and the struggle against them''. London. ISBN 9781786076601.
==References==
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==External links== *[http://www.michaelpeel.co.uk/ Michael Peel, official website] *[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/sep/12/michael-peel-swamp-full-dollars ''Guardian'' review of ''A Swamp Full of Dollars''] *[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/07/michael-peel-first-book-award Michael Peel interview for Guardian First Book Award] *[http://www.granta.com/Contributors/Michael-Peel Michael Peel contributions] to ''Granta'' magazine *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100131200034/http://globalpolitician.com/22341-africa The West and Michael Peel's Africa (critical comment by Uche Nworah)]
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