EIF Network

Mathias is a journalist, technologist, and researcher. He holds a position as project manager at InfoAmazonia, leading the development of data-driven and web application products, such as PlenaMata in cooperation with Natura and MapaBiomas. Before joining InfoAmazonia, he was a researcher at the University of Navarra, Spain, under the JOLT project, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. He was also a visiting researcher at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. Mathias Felipe is co-editor of the book “Journalism, Data and Technology in Latin America” published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.

Helen is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Access Info EU, a Madrid-based organization specialized in promoting and protecting the right to information since 2006. She is a human rights activist specializing in the right of access to information (freedom of information) and the development of open and democratic societies with participatory and accountable governments. Helen is also part of Open Government Partnership Steering Committee and the Chair of the civil society anti-corruption coalition: the UNCAC Coalition.

Steve is a Geographer and Data Scientist with a special focus on sustainable development issues. He has been involved in various projects ranging from tackling deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon or analyzing the potential of Community Based Ecotourism for Kyrgyz mountain communities to supporting green mobility initiatives through the Climate Alliance Tyrol. He is currently working as consultant to the European Commission on the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals to support the implementation process of the Sustainable Development Goals and their mainstreaming into the European Policy context.

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.

I have been working as a journalist since 1989 covering the UN cycle of big congerences ond evelopment in the 1990s; the social and environmental impacts of big economic infrastructure projects iin the Amazon Basin.

Investigative reporter specialized in data and public records. I was awarded a 1 year grant by Columbia University (Brown Institute) in 2022 to create a data-driven project to investigate envionmental crimes: datafixers.org.

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.