Lucas van Grinsven is a writer/journalist who worked for Reuters and the Financial Times. He is currently based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

After starting his career in general news and financial reporting, Lucas began covering technology companies and trends in earnest for Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant in 1996, focusing on consumer electronics and semiconductors and soon writing about the small but vibrant Internet community in Amsterdam. In 2000 he became a fellow at the Financial Times and moved to London where he joined Reuters as the European technology reporter later that year.

Between 2000 and 2007 he led a Reuters team of technology, telecoms and media reporters in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and coordinated global stories with colleagues in Asia and the United States. Lucas grew up in and around Amsterdam, he read Dutch language and literature and argumentation theory at the Amsterdam University and did a postgrad in journalism at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has Dutch, English German, French and basic Spanish. Gadget Hell is started as a personal project and is not related to Reuters. You can reach Lucas at: lucas@gadgethell.org