Tom is the head of research at The Gecko Project, a nonprofit media organisation that investigates how crime, corruption, abuses of power, and impunity enable environmental destruction and the violation of marginalised people’s rights, primarily in South-east Asia. As well as conducting investigations himeslef, he helps plan, coordinate, and oversee the research and production of reports across the organisation. Investigations he has worked on have won a SOPA award and the TRACE prize for investigative reporting.