EIF Network

Leopold Salzenstein is a freelance investigator currently based in France. His work focuses on climate change-related issues, including carbon finance, climate change adaptation and environmental wrongdoing.

Klaartje Jaspers is an investigative journalist, often dealing with social and ecological implications of multinational activities, such as mining. The last few years, Klaartje has primarily been looking into the impact of the increasing European demand for biomass on producing countries like Zambia and Sweden. She also has an academic background as an Interdisciplinary Social Scientist focused on the Western and Southern African region.

Stefanie is a journalist and Youtube creator who has collaborated with several German outlets and production companies. With the support of the Google News Initiative, she founded the Youtube channel Flashlight Fish, where she focuses fully on environmental topics in producing content for independent journalists. Her past production and media partners include ZDF, Autorwerk, NDR Television, Plusminus, Financial Times Deutschland and others.

Christina is a PhD researcher in hydrology and earth observation, and a freelance writer specialising in tech and science communication. She’s currently working on her doctoral thesis with the French Institute for Development Research (IRD), assessing the impacts of hydropower development, land use change, and climate change, on the delta of the Mekong in Cambodia. In this framework, Christina is analysing time series of Sentinel and Landsat satellite imagery using cloud computing platforms. Within the scope of the same project she interviews local stakeholders on the Mekong floodplains, and builds an eco-hydrological model for scenario simulation.

Stanley Buenafe Gajete is an international multi-platform journalist and communication specialist from the Philippines for more than a decade. Some stories focused on environment, climate change, disaster, business and economy climate, political economy, global leadership, and others. He is a Cum Laude University of Philippines graduate an an Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and Oxpeckers international journalist fellow.

Elodie Toto is a journalist based in Africa. She covers social, geostrategic, and environmental issues.

Robin is an open-source investigator currently based in Norway. He has worked on a number of investigations related to extractive industries and oil and gas transportation by sea. He is also the co-author of the Tibet Research Project which aimed to map all prisons and detention centers in Tibet. He is currently studying citizen participation in investigating crimes by the powerful and the development of new methods of accountability at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. He participated to the cross-regional program “Investigate West Africa”, from CiFAR.