The Centre for Investigative Journalism

Raj Bairoliya

Chartered accountant and managing director of FTI Forensic Accounting, one of the leading City firms specialising in this type of investigation. The company is retained by law enforcement and regulatory agencies.

Lowell Bergman

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and TV producer. Founder of the Center of Investigative Journalism, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Group, which was formed in the aftermath of the slaying of an Arizona journalist.
For more than 30 years Lowell Bergman has worked in print and television, first in the alternative press at the San Diego Free Press, which became the San Diego Street Journal, then at ABC News and, finally, at CBS, where he was a producer for the television programme, 60 Minutes, for 16 years. The story of his investigation of the tobacco industry for 60 minutes was chronicled in the Academy Award nominated feature film “The Insider”.
Lowell Bergman is also a producer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series “Frontline” and an investigative reporter with the New York Times.

Heather Brooke

Heather Brooke is the author of Your Right to Know (Pluto Press), a guide to using the Freedom of Information Act. She was runner-up for the inaugural Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism and her project "Justice by postcode" for The Times was one of the first examples of computer-assisted reporting in the UK.

Heather Brooke teaches the FOI course for the National Union of Journalists and guest lectures at City University and the University of Westminster. She has talked about Freedom of Information and open government issues on a number of radio and television shows and writes articles for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Evening Standard, New Statesman and other magazines.

Before moving to Britain, Heather Brooke worked in the US as a newspaper reporter covering state government and criminal justice. She used various US FOI laws to uncover politicians’ misuse of public funds for travel and personal election campaigning. In South Carolina, she uncovered flaws in the state’s forensic crime lab and exposed dangerous practices in funeral homes. Both investigations resulted in changes to state law.

Philip Conway

A senior partner at the London law firm of Davenport Lyons, who specialises in libel and media law. Davenport Lyons's high-profile clients include the Mirror newspaper and Express newspaper groups, as well as the satirical magazine Private Eye. Philip will be supported by other partners from the firm's media law department.

Mike Davis

Mike Davis has been working with Global Witness for more than four years and is currently the head of the Southeast Asia Forests team, specialising in Cambodia, Burma and China. He ran the Global Witness field office in Cambodia from 2003 to September. His work with Global Witness involves field investigations, managing information-gathering networks, writing reports, lobbying and working with the media. Between 1998 and 1999 Mike worked with the British Embassy in Cambodia. He has also carried out academic research in Indonesia and East Timor.

David Donald

Training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors and for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. In the past three years he has coordinated and conducted more than 150 investigative and computer-assisted reporting workshops both in the United States and internationally for print, broadcast and online journalists.

An award-winning journalist, Donald oversaw the CAR and research programmes at the Savannah Morning News. He has taught at high school and college levels, including five years at Savannah State University. He holds a master's in journalism from Kent State University.

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. In late 2004, the Scott Trust paid for him to travel to the UK to train in documentary filming. Since November 2004, Ali has completed four documentaries in addition to an hour-long investigation for Dispatches on Channel 4. Ali has won many awards including: Young Journalist of the year in 2005 and a Rory Peck award in 2006. Ali is working on a documentary for HBO to be broadcast next December, investigating what has happened to Iraqi sport.

Stephen Grey

Stephen Grey has been a Middle Eastern Correspondent, European Editor, South East Asia Correspondent, and Insight Editor at the Sunday Times; He was also home affairs correspondent for the Daily Express, as well as presenter/reporter for BBC Radio Four’s File on Four and a consultant to CBS 60 Minutes and ABC News, New York. And a contributor to The Independent, The new Stateman, Newsweek and Atlantic Monthly.

He has appeared on BBC Two Newsnight, ITN, Channel 5 News, World at One, Radio Five and Radio Two. In November 2004, he broke the story of the flights of the secret CIA fleet of jets that take prisoners to Middle Eastern countries, where torture is routine.

His award-winning work includes:
- 2004: runner-up Story of the Year, the Foreign Press Association, London, for American Gulag, published 2004, exposing America’s secret network of prisons.
- 2002: finalist award for "outstanding international investigative journalism" from the Center for Public Integrity, Washington DC, for the five-part Insight investigation into background to the September 11 attacks.
- 1999: member of British Press Awards "team of the year" from The Sunday Times for coverage of the Kosovo war.

Luc Hermann

Editor-in-chief, Productions Tony Comiti - French Television News Agency.

French journalist Luc Hermann was executive producer and co-anchor of the investigative programme 90 Minutes on French network Canal+. The award-winning monthly investigative programme focused on international controversies, wars and conflicts, multinational corporations, health stories, as well as covering political stories in France. In 2001, 90 Minutes was the first to launch a financial investigation on Clearstream, the Luxembourg "bank of the banks".

Luc Hermann has produced numerous stories on the pharmaceutical industry, including the controversy surrounding the availability of generic anti-HIV/Aids drugs in developing countries and the dangers of antidepressants. He has covered and investigated the war in Kosovo and Iraq.

In 2004, with Paul Moreira, he launched a freedom of information act (FOIA) campaign to lobby French politicians. The Campagne Liberté d'Informer has organised many debates in universities and the French Assemblée National, and received the support of hundreds of French journalists, elected officials, lawyers. To date, more than 3,800 signatures have been submitted to the campaign's website, www.liberte-dinformer.info.

Luc Hermann has been an international reporter with Canal+ for 18 years, before which he was associate producer at CNN International in Atlanta for two years.

Mark Hunter

Mark Hunter is the only person to have won awards from Investigative Reporters and Editors for both his journalism and his research on journalism. His other journalism awards include the H.L. Mencken Free Press Award for work on government abuses, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for research on journalism, and the National Headliners and Clarion Awards for a series showing how an obscure US law created a population of handicapped children who were subsequently cut from welfare rolls. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics and elsewhere.

Mark Hunter's doctoral thesis, published by the Presses Universitaires de France as Le Journalisme d'investigation en France et aux Etats-Unis, was the first cross-cultural study of French and American investigative reporting methods. Among his other works are The Passions of Men: Work and Love in the Age of Stress (Putnam, 1988); the first unauthorised biography of Jack Lang (Les Jours les plus Lang, Odile Jacob, 1990); a case-cracking investigation into a murder case that implicated France's power elite, Le Destin de Suzanne: La Véritable affaire Canson (Fayard, 1995); an inside analysis of the French extreme right and its militant base, Un Américain au Front: Enqute au sein du Front National(Stock, 1998); and a documentary film on France's alcohol lobby (Chronique d'une campagne arrosée, Arte, 1999).

Mark Hunter is a founding member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an associate professor at the Institut Franais de Presse of the Université de Paris and an adjunct professor at INSEAD.

Andrew Jennings

Andrew Jennings investigated organised crime before focusing on corruption at the International Olympic Committee and FIFA. He writes books, makes films and contributes to publications world-wide.

Tommy Kaas

Tommy Kaas has a background in print journalism. He was a co-founder of FCJ, the Organisation for Computer-Assisted Reporting, and the Danish International Centre for Analytical Reporting (Dicar).

From 2002-2006 he worked full time for Dicar. With Nils Mulvad he now runs "Kaas & Mulvad - Research and analysis". He has trained reporters and researchers in Denmark and several other countries.

David Leigh

David Leigh is an Assistant Editor at The Guardian, with special responsibility for investigations. He was previously Comment [Op-Ed] Editor at The Guardian, and has also worked in London at The Observer, where he ran an investigation team, and at The Times. Between 1989 and 1996, he produced documentaries for two of Britain's main current affairs TV programmes, This Week and World in Action.

He has won a number of journalism awards, including Granada’s “Investigative Journalist of the Year”, the British Press Awards “Campaigning Journalist of the Year”, and an award from the UK Freedom of Information Campaign.

His investigations have focused on the intelligence services; political corruption and misbehaviour by big corporations. In recent years he has exposed international cigarette smuggling by British American Tobacco and bribery over arms sales. He exposed the payment by BAE of £1 million in “commissions” to Chilean military leader – and torturer – General Pinochet.

His books include The Liar (an account of the Aitken affair); Sleaze, (the story of the Neil Hamilton case); and books about the intelligence services; the drug-smuggler Howard Marks; Labour leader Michael Foot; Chernobyl; the Westland helicopter scandal; and a book campaigning for Freedom of Information legislation.

Audrius Lelkaitis

Audrius works In Lithuania as a freelance television journalist. Until 2006 he was head of television news at Lithuanian Television and Radio, the national broadcaster. He recently spent a month working undercover as a migrant worker In the UK, as part of an investigation into the conditions of migrant workers in Britain for BBC television news.

Gavin MacFadyen

Summer School director and former producer-director, Granada Television's World in Action, Channel 4's Dispatches, BBC documentaries and current affairs, PBS, Frontline and ABC.

He is the Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, a Visiting Professor at City University and research consultant to several US documentary and feature film companies. In addition to designing training programmes and speaking in Brazil, Canada, China, Serbia, Norway, and the US, he has three feature film projects, based on investigations, currently in development.

Tom Mangold

Best-selling and award-winning author, his titles include a history of CIA counter-intelligence chief, James Angleton and an investigation into biological warfare. He is a veteran of BBC Panorama and radio reporting, specialising in intelligence and the media, with recent programmes on the death of Government scientist David Kelly, global oil and racial violence.

Robert Miller

Robert Miller is the deputy editor of Telegraph Talk. Previously he was associate editor of Sunday Business; City editor of The Daily Express and The Sunday Express; banking correspondent of The Times; personal finance correspondent of The Observer; deputy editor of The Money Observer.

Aron Pilhofer

Aron Pilhofer is a projects and computer-assisted reporting editor at The New York Times. He specialises in money and influence in Washington, DC, a subject he has been covering for more than a decade.

In his previous position, at the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity, Pilhofer began an ongoing project in 2002 to track a new form of political non-profit organisation, so-called 527 groups. The centre's reporting was among the first to highlight the gaping hole in federal campaign finance regulations, which allows these groups to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into elections nationwide.

Before working at the centre, Pilhofer was on the national training staff of Investigative Reporters and Editors, where he co-authored Unstacking the Deck: A Reporter's Guide To Campaign Finance. He also was a statehouse and projects reporter for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey.

His work has been honored with a number of national awards, including the Polk, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Society of Professional Journalists and Online News Association awards.

Luuk Sengers

Luuk Senger is a freelance reporter and board member of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Investigative Reporters (VVOJ). He has written investigative stories about wage differences, unfairness in the tax system, diminishing social security, rising poverty, accidents in public transport, unsafe baby food and hormone disrupting chemicals in drinking water for national newspapers and magazines. He teaches advanced research techniques at journalism schools and universities in The Netherlands and Belgium. And he is co-founder of the first European investigative reporters network, IRENE.

Roman Shleinov

Is the Investigations Editor of Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow-based newspaper for which Anna Politkovskaya also worked. He has been at the newspaper since 1994.

Sharon Tiller

WGBH executive-in-charge for Frontline/World. Tiller joined Frontline in 1995. As senior producer, she works with independent producers to develop ideas, funding strategies and documentary proposals for the series and oversees the production of a number of programs each season.

In 2002, Tiller and executive producer David Fanning launched a new international magazine series Frontline/World that features the work of a new generation of video journalists.

In 1996, she helped establish the Frontline West project at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where producers-in-residence work with graduates of the documentary program on a number of Frontline and World projects each academic year. Tiller also teaches a course at the journalism school.

Her recent Frontline credits include Drug Wars, a critically acclaimed four-hour special on America's 30-year war on drug abuse and drug crime, and Blackout, a joint Frontline/New York Times investigation of the California energy crisis and the role of energy traders such as the Enron Corporation.

Before joining Frontline, Tiller was the executive director for the San Francisco-based Centre for Investigative Reporting, where she managed editorial and administrative operations. In 1989, she launched and supervised an independent documentary unit at CIR, which has co-produced 15 investigative documentaries for Frontline.

Tiller has received two Dupont-Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Awards, a George Polk Award for National Television Reporting, a World Affairs Council Award of Excellence for International Reporting, two National Education Writers' first prizes for documentary television, as well as a national Emmy and the George Foster Peabody Award for Drug Wars.

Justin Walford

Former legal manager for The Daily Express and The Sunday Express newspapers. He works now for The News of the World and The Sun.

Simos Xenitellis

Simos Xenitellis is a PhD candidate in Information Security at Royal Holloway College. He has worked with NGOs in several countries providing computer security training.