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
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
Andrew Jennings has worked a host of UK and foreign networks and publications.
Andy Rowell
Andy Rowell is an award-winning freelance writer and investigative journalist.
Ann Pettifor
Ann Pettifor is a fellow of the new economics foundation.
Aron Pilhofer
Aron Pilhofer is editor of interactive news technologies at The New York Times.
Audrius Lelkaitis
Audrius Lelkaitis works in Lithuania as a freelance television journalist.
Charles ‘Chuck’ Lewis
Charles ‘Chuck’ Lewis has been a national investigative journalist for 30 years.
Cynthia O’Murchu
Cynthia O’Murchu has worked in the media for over a decade on a range of projects.
David Leigh
David Leigh is one of the UK’s best-known investigative journalists.
David Banisar
David Banisar is director of the FOI Project of Privacy International.
David Donald
David Donald oversees CAR at the Center for Public Integrity.
David Gordon
David Gordon is Investigations Correspondent for the Belfast Telegraph.
David Miller
Professor of Sociology, Strathclyde University, Glasgow and writer on propaganda, spin and lobbying. Co-founder of Spinwatch
Dmitri Vitaliev
Dmitri Vitaliev is an independent consultant working in digital security and privacy.
Drew Sullivan
Drew Sullivan is the founder of the Journalism Development Group LLC, a media development organisation
Duncan Campbell
Freelance investigative journalist and television producer.
Elena Egawhary
Elena Egawhary is a freelance journalist and one of the CIJ’s CAR trainers.
Francis Irving
Francis Irving is a computer programmer, campaigner and founder of the website Public Whip.
Gavin MacFadyen
Gavin MacFadyen is the director of the CIJ and visiting professor at City University.
Gavin Millar
Gavin Millar QC joined the Centre for Investigative Journalism Board in 2008.
Greg Muttitt
Greg Muttitt is a co-director of PLATFORM.
George Brock
Head of Journalism and Publishing, City University.
Harold Evans
Author of The American Century, We the People and The BBC Reports: On America, its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorism.
Heather Brooke
Heather Brooke is a journalist and writer. She is the author of ‘Your Right to Know’.
Ian Hislop
Ian Hislop a broadcaster, writer, performer and editor of Private Eye.
Isabel Hilton
Guardian columnist, writer and broadcaster.
James Ball
James Ball is a senior reporter for food industry trade journal The Grocer.
Jeffrey Katz
Jeffrey Katz is the Chief Executive of Bishop International.
Jennifer LaFleur
Jennifer LaFleur is the director for CAR at ProPublica.
Jenny Chryss
Producer BBC Radio 4
Jim Nichol
Jim Nichol is a leading criminal solicitor specialising in miscarriages of justice
John Pilger
John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker.
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is an 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
Luc Hermann is editor-in-chief, productions Tony Comiti, French Television News Agency.
Luuk Sengers
Luuk Sengers became a freelance investigative reporter in 2005.
Mark Lee Hunter
Mark Lee Hunter is an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD.
Mark Schapiro
Mark Schapiro is editorial director of the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco.
Martin Tomkinson
Martin Tomkinson is an investigative financial journalist and corporate researcher.
Martin Welz
Editor and publisher Noseweek, South Africa.
Melanie McFadyean
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
Dr Michael Warhurst has worked as the senior campaigner for the Resource Use team at Friends of the Earth since November 2005.
Mike Davis
Mike Davis has been working with Global Witness for more than four years.
Murray Dick
Murray Dick is a lecturer at Brunel University, specialising in online journalism.
Nick Davies
Nick Davies is known for his investigations into crime, poverty and social issues.
Paul Myers
Paul Myers has successfully introduced many technical tools into journalism.
Paul Radu
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
Philip Conway is a partner in leading London law firm Davenport Lyons.
Phillip Knightley
Writer and journalist, author of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker.
Raj Bairoliya
Raj Bairoliya has specialised in forensic accounting investigations for over 20 years.
Raphael Rowe
Raphael Rowe’s is 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
Richard Orange is managing director of Orchard News Bureau Ltd.
Robert Miller
Robert Miller is the presenter of Telegraph TV’s twice daily Business Bullet show.
Robert Wardle
Robert Wardle is a solicitor who joined the Serious Fraud Office in 1988 on its foundation.
Roman Shleynov
Roman Shleynov is the 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
Simos Xenitellis is a PhD candidate in Information Security.
Sharon Tiller
WGBH executive-in-charge for Frontline/World. Tiller joined Frontline in 1995.
Sheila Bird
Professor Sheila Bird is principal statistician at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit
Stephen Grey
Stephen Grey has been a Middle Eastern Correspondent, European Editor, South East Asia Correspondent, and Insight Editor at the Sunday Times.
Solomon Hughes
Solomon Hughes is a freelance investigative reporter
Tom Mangold
Tom Mangold is an award-winning author, and veteran of BBC Panorama and radio reporting.
Tommy Kaas
Tommy Kaas has a background in print journalism. He was a co-founder of FCJ.
Tony Hillier
Tony Hillier is Chairman of Stauffenberg Capital Limited.
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist.
Wojtek Bogusz
Wojtek Bogusz is a digital security consultant working in Dublin with Front Line.