Ben Deighton is the Managing Editor of SciDev.Net. He is responsible for ensuring editorial independence and quality of articles and multimedia products. Deighton joined SciDev.Net in July 2017 after four years as editor of Horizon magazine. He has worked as a journalist since 2001 and was previously a reporter for the Reuters news agency in London and Brussels. He has a degree in French and a postgraduate diploma in journalism.