James Ball is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author, fellow of the think-tank Demos, and the political editor of The New World.

He has worked as the global editor of TBIJ, a special correspondent at BuzzFeed UK and special projects editor at The Guardian, where he played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA leaks by Edward Snowden.

His most recent book, "The Other Pandemic: How Qanon Contaminated The World", was published by Bloomsbury in July 2023. He is researching a PhD on how legal systems interact with AI, at UCL Laws.