EIF Network

Arnaud is an investigative journalist and program coordinator at the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO). He has led several cross-border trainings and mentoring programs through his role as CENOZO, with renowned partners such as Open Facto, CiFAR, CFI, the Journalism Fund EU, IMS, the GIJN, the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) and many others. Arnaud has a strong focus on cross-border media partnerships and illicit financial flows.

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.

Simon is an award winning Tanzania investigative journalist, renowned editor, columnist and media trainer with 26 years of experience. He has been freelancing for various national and international media outlets and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for which he contributed to the Mauritius Leaks. He also documented the working conditions of East African truck drivers amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in a collaborative photo-report published by the Mail & Guardian in South Africa.

Aron is the Asia Pacific Editor at The Third Pole and China Dialogue, managing the websites’ reporting on climate change and the environment across the Asia Pacific.

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

Dorian Cabrol is a french freelance journalist working mainly for local investigative media called Mediacités. He was involved in transnational investigative projects between Europe and West Africa supported by the german NGO CiFAR. He has worked in Ivory Coast for 3 years with “l’Éléphant Déchaîné“, an ivorian weekly investigative newspaper. He has written stories mainly about the marine economy in several sectors like fishing or maritime transport in Abidjan’s port. He has also worked on the mafia of land transport for Vice Magazine.

Boris is European Journalism Project Manager at Clean Energy Wire (CLEW), an independent, not-for-profit information and media service for journalists, where he heads initiatives to boost reporting on the European Green Deal. He has also worked as a specialist on Eastern European climate and energy topics, amongst others for n-ost, navos Public Dialogue Consultants and the German Economic Team. In addition, he is also part of The Eurasian Climate Brief podcast, which aims to give voice to the best experts and journalists to make sense of a part of the world where environmental news is at best underreported, at worst