Rowenna Davis is a freelance journalist from London specialising in political and social affairs. She writes features and comment for the Guardian, the New Statesman and the Financial Times amongst others, and comments on Sky News. She has published various investigative pieces on health affairs, recently exposing the large rise in antidepressants and Ritalin use for the Guardian and the relative growth of “lifestyle” or non-infectious diseases in the developing world for the Financial Times. She has also worked for BBC Radio 4 on political documentaries, and at the United Nations Head Quarters in New York where she worked on communications, specialising in matters of health and development.

In her spare time Rowenna works for the charity Headliners, a charity that trains young people from deprived areas to be journalists, and for Crisis. She was recently elected as a Labour councillor in Southwark.