EIF Network

Mais is an Investigative Journalist, International Media Trainer and Training Designer. She has conducted training programs for hundreds of journalists in the Middle East and North Africa and has worked with international training centers in Europe and USA such as the Radio Netherlands Training Center, Arizona University, International Center of Journalism and Internews. She is a brave and talented investigative journalist who has covered the Syrian war for 10 years long and EIF team member representative for environmental investigative initiatives in the Middle East 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.

Rami is a Yemeni multimedia and investigative journalist, with 10 years of experience producing multimedia stories and in-depth domestic investigations. He worked for a number of Yemeni newspapers, most notably YNP. He was awarded the prestigious United Nations Reham Alfra Journalism Fellowship and is also a general manager of Waterford Academy in Yemen. He has been an ICFJ grantee since 2020.

His work focuses on civil-military relations in the Middle East and North Africa. He has contributed to projects which present the intertwined relations of Egypt’s military generals and businessmen across kinship and benefit-based networks. He studied investigative journalism at RNTC Media Training Centre in the Netherlands. He has published several investigations on human rights, Illicit financial flows and Corruption.He has worked on projects that use data for positive social change with DATA4CHANGE. He was part of an Egyptian-French cross-border investigation team in cooperation with CIFAR.

I am the project officer at Climate Whistleblowers (CW), an NGO dedicated to the protection of individuals who disclose information on climate-related wrongdoings.

Baron Nkoy is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker on economic and social development in the Democratic Republic of Congo and producer of the blog-magazine “Le reportage”. He uses the platform Le Reportage to address issues of poverty, social injustice, environment, economic inequality by giving voice to local people, community leaders, farmers, environmentalists and/or activists. In 2022, he participated to EIF’s initated investigation on French oil & gas giant Perenco in DRC which was featured as a chapter of Investigate Europe & Disclose‘s “Perenco Files” investigative series, which led to the company being prosecuted on the day of publication of

Aseel is a Yemenee journalist working as an Investigative Journalist and Media Content Producer Trainer in investigative journalism. He is a supervisor of investigations with ARIJ, a network of arabic investigative journalists, but also for Al Jazeera Net. Aseel has worked on multiple investigations as well as training and media development initiatives in the past years involving various international partners and has worked on climate change and environmental issues in a continuous manner in the past 7 years at least.