Over the years we have had some of the biggest names in investigative journalism speak and train at our summer schools, courses and talks. This page gives some biographical information about the people we work with.
Ali Fadhil
Started his career in journalism working as an interpreter for The Financial Times, The Guardian and the New Yorker Magazine in Iraq.
Andrew Jennings
Has worked at a host of UK and foreign networks and publications.
Andy Rowell
Award-winning freelance writer and investigative journalist.
Ann Pettifor
A fellow of the new economics foundation.
Aron Pilhofer
Editor of interactive news technologies at The New York Times.
Audrius Lelkaitis
Works in Lithuania as a freelance television journalist.
Charles ‘Chuck’ Lewis
Has been a national investigative journalist for 30 years.
Cynthia O’Murchu
Has worked in the media for over a decade on a range of projects.
David Leigh
Is one of the UK’s best-known investigative journalists.
David Banisar
Director of the FOI Project of Privacy International.
David Donald
Oversees computer assisted reporting (CAR) at the Center for Public Integrity.
David Gordon
Investigations Correspondent for the Belfast Telegraph.
David Miller
Co-founder of Spinwatch and Professor of Sociology, Strathclyde University, Glasgow. Writes on propaganda, spin and lobbying.
Dmitri Vitaliev
Independent consultant working in digital security and privacy.
Drew Sullivan
Founder of the Journalism Development Group LLC, a media development organisation
Duncan Campbell
Freelance investigative journalist and television producer.
Elena Egawhary
Freelance journalist and one of the CIJ’s CAR trainers.
Francis Irving
Computer programmer, campaigner and founder of the website Public Whip.
Gavin MacFadyen
Director of the CIJ and visiting professor at City University.
Gavin Millar
joined the Centre for Investigative Journalism Board in 2008.
Greg Muttitt
Co-director of PLATFORM.
George Brock
Head of Journalism and Publishing, City University.
Harold Evans
Former editor of the Sunday Times and president of Random House.
Heather Brooke
Journalist and writer. She is the author of ‘Your Right to Know’ and ‘Silent State’.
Ian Hislop
Private Eye and a broadcaster, writer and performer.
Isabel Hilton
Guardian columnist, writer and broadcaster.
James Ball
James Ball is the development producer for the Bureau for Investigative Journalism and oversees their web presence.
Jeffrey Katz
Chief Executive of Bishop International.
Jennifer LaFleur
Director for computer assisted reporting (CAR) at ProPublica.
Jenny Chryss
Producer at BBC Radio 4
Jim Nichol
Leading criminal solicitor specialising in miscarriages of justice
John Pilger
World-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker.
Julian Assange
Activist, journalist, and the editor of WikiLeaks.
Justin Walford
Former legal manager for The Daily Express and The Sunday Express newspapers.
Lowell Bergman
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and TV producer.
Luc Hermann
Editor-in-chief, productions Tony Comiti, French Television News Agency.
Luuk Sengers
Freelance investigative reporter since 2005.
Mark Lee Hunter
Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD.
Mark Schapiro
Editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco.
Martin Tomkinson
Investigative financial journalist and corporate researcher.
Martin Welz
Editor and publisher of Noseweek, South Africa.
Melanie McFadyean
Has been a freelance journalist for 30 years.
Michael Gavshon
Producer, CBS 60 minutes.
Michael Gillard
Writes for The Mail on Sunday, the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, television and radio.
Michael Ryan
Director of World in Action, What the Papers Say.
Michael Schrenk
Michael Schrenk is a software developer, author and instructor.
Michael Warhurst
Has worked as the senior campaigner for the Resource Use team at Friends of the Earth since November 2005.
Mike Davis
Has been working with Global Witness for more than four years.
Murray Dick
Lecturer at Brunel University, specialising in online journalism.
Nick Davies
Investigations editor at the Guardian. Known for his investigations into crime, poverty and social issues.
Paul Myers
Paul Myers has successfully introduced many technical tools into journalism.
Paul Radu
Co-founded the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism (RCIJ).
Paul Lashmar
Reporter and programme maker. Lecturer at University College Falmouth and Solent University. Formerly at The Independent, Observer and Granada television.
Peter Hounam
Former Sunday Times Insight Team.
Philip Conway
Partner in leading London law firm Davenport Lyons.
Phillip Knightley
Author of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker.
Raj Bairoliya
Has specialised in forensic accounting investigations for over 20 years.
Raphael Rowe
An investigative journalist for BBC Panorama.
Ray Fitzwalter
Author and programme maker; head of current affiars Granada television 1987-93. Author of The Dream that Died – The Rise and Fall of ITV
Richard Orange
Managing director of Orchard News Bureau Ltd.
Robert Miller
Presenter of Telegraph TV’s twice daily Business Bullet show.
Robert Wardle
Solicitor who joined the Serious Fraud Office in 1988 on its foundation.
Roman Shleynov
Investigations editor of the Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
Rosie Waterhouse
Freelance journalist for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, BBC Newsnight, lecturer City University.
Simos Xenitellis
PhD candidate in Information Security.
Sharon Tiller
WGBH executive-in-charge for Frontline/World. Tiller joined Frontline in 1995.
Sheila Bird
Principal statistician at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit
Stephen Grey
Has been a Middle Eastern Correspondent, European Editor, South East Asia Correspondent, and Insight Editor at the Sunday Times.
Solomon Hughes
Freelance investigative reporter
Tom Mangold
Award-winning author, and veteran of BBC Panorama and radio reporting.
Tommy Kaas
Background in print journalism. He was a co-founder of FCJ.
Tony Hillier
Chairman of Stauffenberg Capital Limited.
Vandana Shiva
World-renowned environmental thinker and activist.
Wojtek Bogusz
Digital security consultant working in Dublin with Front Line.