Alexenia Dimitrova is an award-winning journalist, OSINT expert and lecturer in journalism. She is Member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and holder of a shared Pulitzer award (2017) with the ICIJ team for their work on the global investigation The Panama Papers.

Anna Leach is a Visual Projects editor at the Guardian, where she creates visual and interactive stories ranging from the ownership of England's water companies to an analysis of what folklore can tell us about conspiracy theories.

Cathy Newman is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News. She spent over a decade in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times. Since joining Channel 4 News in 2006 she has broadcast a string of scoops, including an eight year investigation unmasking the most prolific abuser in the Church of England, barrister John Smyth.

Chris Bell works for BBC News Investigations in London, working particularly on stories involving crime, the courts or open source investigation for broadcast and digital outlets.

Cynthia O'Murchu is an investigative reporter at the Financial Times focusing on financial wrongdoing and corporate fraud. Her work focuses on unravelling complex financial money flows, often using public records and open source methods.

Daniel De Simone is investigations correspondent for BBC News, where he mainly researches stories involving injustice, crime, and terrorism. Daniel was educated at Goldsmiths College.

Dr Mark Lee Hunter is a founding member of The Global Investigative Journalism Network, the principal author of Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists (UNESCO 2009) and the recipient of many awards for his reporting.

Guy Porter has a background in digital investigations, data analysis and research for campaign organisations Global Witness, Avaaz and Purpose, and training and development for the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ), Public Media Alliance and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Helena Bengtsson is the data journalism editor at Gota Media, a regional publishing company in the south of Sweden with 13 local titles. She previously worked as the data journalism editor at Sveriges Television, Sweden’s national television broadcaster, for 27 years and has also served as Editor, Data Projects of the Guardian UK between 2014-2017.

Jenna Corderoy is a reporter for openDemocracy’s investigations team. She specialises in obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and has brought several successful FOIA challenges at tribunal.

Jonathan Stoneman is a freelance trainer specialising in data journalism. He has been working with data since 2010. Before that he worked at the BBC – as a reporter, producer, editor of output in Macedonian and Croatian, and finally as head of training at BBC World Service.

Luuk Sengers is an experienced teacher and investigative journalist. He lectures at universities and in newsrooms and writes data-driven stories for the leading Dutch magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. He is also the co-developer of Story-Based Inquiry.

Matilda Davies has worked at The Times and The Sunday Times as a data journalist since 2021, specialising in data-led investigations. She has won several awards for her investigations, tech reporting and environmental journalism.

Pamela Duncan is the editor of the Guardian’s Data Project team, an occasional award-winning journalist (#humblebrag) and a self-confessed data nerd. She can usually be found at her desk poring over spreadsheets and using her coding skills - usually a combination of scraping, regex and pandas/Python - to build and analyse datasets to produce high quality and exclusive data stories.

Professor Paul Bradshaw is a data journalist and author, who leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. He publishes the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM.

Raj Bairoliya is a well-known expert forensic accountant and has been teaching Understanding Company Accounts at the CIJ for 15 years. Raj frequently helps journalists and broadcasters to decipher the accounting/business aspects of a story.

Sarah Cammarata is an OSINT practitioner and corporate intelligence analyst, investigating white collar crime. Before moving to London from Washington, DC to pursue a Master’s in War Studies from King’s College London, she worked as a reporter at POLITICO and Stars and Stripes, where she covered defence, Congress and US military branches.

Tais Gadea Lara is a climate journalist from Argentina. Since 2014 she has been covering the climate negotiations and international politics. In 2024 she was a Climate Explorer at the Constructive Institute (Denmark) working on a global project to help journalists improve climate reporting.

Tom Beal is a journalist in the BBC News Investigations team in London where he has a particular interest in financial, political and legal stories. Tom has a background in video journalism and has directed longform documentaries for the BBC