Michael Cross - Journalist
Michael Cross began his career as a local newspaper reporter in England in 1975. He then spent five years covering the Middle East before specialising in science, technology and international development as an editor at New Scientist magazine. In that role, he was the first British journalist to reach the famine in northern Ethiopia in 1983.
In 1986, he was part of the launch team at the Independent newspaper as a business reporter, columnist and feature writer. He went on to spend three years as a correspondent in Japan, before returning to the UK to specialise in government IT policy, covering such issues as e-government and the computerisation of the NHS.
Michael is now a regular columnist with the Guardian. He has written books on subjects as diverse as biomass energy, the future of the NHS and mobile computers, and reported from some 60 countries on seven continents. He lives in London.
