Ștefan Cândea

Ștefan Cândea, a Romanian journalist, is the co-founder and coordinator of the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network and teaches an investigative collaborations clinic at the University of Coimbra.

During the early 2000s he was involved in the co-founding of one of the first European non-profit investigative structures, Centrul Român pentru Jurnalism de Investigație (CRJI). As a CRJI representative he participated in the early and informal co-founding of groups that later became formalised as the GIJN and OCCRP. Later on, as an ICIJ member, he contributed research, articles and coordination for the first large-scale cross-border collaboration, Secrecy for Sale, alongside journalistic work as the correspondent of RSF in Romania, a role he held for two decades.

Stefan developed critical research about media and investigative journalism structures, first as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard and finally earning a PhD degree at the University of Westminster.