Mehul Srivastava covers cybersecurity for the Financial Times, focusing on the proliferation of spyware, hacking and ransomware, and the implications for national security and geopolitics.
In 2020 he was named Tech Journalist of the Year by the British Press Awards and won a Gerald Loeb award for a series of stories on Israel’s NSO Group and its surveillance software Pegasus. Mehul was previously a foreign correspondent, stationed in Istanbul and later Jerusalem.
Before joining the Financial Times in 2015, he was a reporter-at-large at Bloomberg News. where he won Journalist of the Year from the Society of Publishers in Asia for an investigation into starvation in India. The series also won awards for human rights and explanatory reporting and was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb.