EIF Network

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.

Pierre Claver Banyankiye is a Burundi-based data journalist with six years of experience in print media, specializing in economic and environmental issues.

Andiswa is an investigative reporter with reporting experience in the extractives and energy sectors as well as managing teams investigating environmental crimes. She currently works on several of Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism’s projects, where she tracks, monitors and investigates wildlife and other environmental crimes, as well as the status of renewable energy projects and the Just Energy Transition in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province.

Rukaia Al-Abadi is a Syrian journalist who works as an independent investigative journalist with open sources and currently resides in Paris. She has worked as a correspondent in the Syrian war, documenting human rights violations in the Syrian conflict, in addition to producing investigations on climate change.

Gideon is a journalist with nearly a decade of experience in data and investigative journalism. He is a co-founder of iWatch Africa where he is currently the Director of Policy and News. He is an alumnus of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Thomson Reuters Foundation, Free Press Unlimited. Gideon is a 2020/21 Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and a Ghana Hub Lead for the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. He is also a 2020/21 Open Internet for Democracy Leader at the Center for International Media Assistance and the National Democratic Institute in Washington, DC.

Arlis is an accomplished investigative journalist with critically acclaimed reporting on environmental and social issues in the Balkan region. During his Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), he wrote an investigative report on illegal logging in Albania’s largest national park. He won the CEI SEEMO Award for Outsanding Merits in Investigative Journalism 2019 for this work. He joined CiFAR second “investigate” training program the same year and published a cross-border story on illegal working permits in the UNESCO site of lake Orhid, shared by Albania and North Macedonia.

Holder of a master's degree in journalism from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), in French- speaking Belgium, Guillaume Moulaert - 34 years old - immediately stood out during a national competition to identify young reporters, which gave him opened the doors of the national public TV and radio channel RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge Francophone).