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.

Camille is a journalist focusing on North Africa (and especially Tunisia) for Paris-based Jeune Afrique. She mainly deals with internal politics, regional matters, diplomacy and environmental issues. She worked eight years abroad, mainly for french-speaking media (RFI, RTS, RTBF, Le Parisien…) as a correspondent in Tunisia (2012-2016) and in Turkey (2016-2018). Her past works include focuses on migration, security, social matters ans religious issues. She co-founded the media-education association « Globe Reporters Environnement ». An organization which purpose is to support pupils from 7 to 17 years old into developing their own interviews with their teachers on ecological themes and

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.

César is an investigative journalist based in Ivory Coast, where various traffics are happening “for all to see”, acoording to him. He has been an Open Climate Reporting Initiative (OCRI) and CENOZO trainee in 2022, working on environmental damages caused by the cement industry in Abidjan. César has a strong desire for further environmental projects and cross-border cooperation.

My name is Bárbara Poerner Pereira, I'm 26 years old and I'm from Santa Catarina, currently based between Florianópolis and São Paulo. I have been working as a journalist at Instituto Climainfo, a socio-environmental organization.

Zuza Nazaruk is a freelance journalist from Poland, based in the Netherlands. She is passionate about the intersection between environmental issue, labour, as well as corporate misinformation. Her past investigations include rising energy poverty rates among low-income households in the Netherlands and Denmark and the inadequacy of existing EU recycling strategies. Zuza considers herself a lifelong learner and is looking to expand her skills in OSINT, geolocation, and geographical analysis (such as GIS) while growing her investigative portfolio.

Ben Akili has been an investigative journalist in the DRC for 5 years, and a general journalist for 7 years. He has a strong focus in mining and environmental issues, especially as the DRC, and its eastern and southern parts, filled with mining areas that are exploited by foreign companies. He currently heads the Congolese Investigative Journalists’ Network and is also a member of GIJN Francophone Africa member.

Thomas is an independent researcher and consultant. He is currently based in France, after working on a long-term basis in Uganda on various environmental topics, where he lived for 5 years.