Irving Huerta

Irving Huerta is a journalist and an academic. He was the first CIJ and Forensic Architecture Gavin MacFadyen Investigative Fellow for the Project ‘Plataforma Ayotzinapa’ on the enforced disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014. Prior to this he worked for the Mexican publication AristeguiNoticias.com as an investigative journalist, carrying out investigations on accountability, corruption and organised crime; for instance the “casa blanca” escandal, about a 7-million-dollar mansion owned by the Mexican president, and the Panama Papers exposé, a collaborative investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists which won the Pulitzer Prize. He holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths University, is a member of CONNECTAS’ Editorial Board, and is a regular trainer and course developer for the CIJ.