International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

ICIJ Staff

David E. Kaplan — Director
David E. Kaplan was named ICIJ director in April 2008. Over a 30-year career, he has investigated organized crime, terrorist groups, corporate polluters, corrupt law enforcement officials, neo-Nazis, the banking industry, and the intelligence community. Kaplan worked previously as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and as one of two senior editors at the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting. He has reported from two dozen countries and is a former Fulbright scholar in Japan. Among his books are YAKUZA, widely considered the standard reference on the Japanese mafia; and Fires of the Dragon, on the murder of journalist Henry Liu. Kaplan’s stories have won or shared more than 15 awards, including honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the American Bar Association, Overseas Press Club, and World Affairs Council.

Marina Walker Guevara — Deputy Director
Marina Walker Guevara joined ICIJ in fall 2005. She has written for newspapers and magazines in Argentina and the United States on issues ranging from public health and the environment to courts and human rights. Her investigations have won and shared more than 10 national and international awards. In March 2006 she was awarded the European Commission Lorenzo Natali Prize (Latin America and the Caribbean region) for her reporting about environmental damage caused in Peru by a U.S.-based mining company; that investigation also won her the 2006 Reuters-IUCN Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. She graduated magna cum laude from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina, with a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences, and earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri.

Te-Ping Chen — Reporter
Te-Ping Chen is a staff writer for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Originally hailing from Oakland, California, Chen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a joint bachelor’s degree in sociology and international relations. Her writing has appeared in the Nation Magazine, the American Prospect, the South China Morning Post, Le Soir, and with Slate.com. She is a U.S. Truman Scholar, 2006 Freeman Scholar and 2007 Arthur Liman Public-Interest Fellow whose work has shared awards from the Overseas Press Club and Investigative Reporters and Editors. She joined ICIJ in June 2008.

Kate Willson — Reporter
Willson joined the Center for Public Integrity in 2007. She earned her master’s in journalism at American University and her bachelor’s in French at Oregon State University. Focused on enterprise and investigative reporting, she has worked from Colombia, Brazil, Mexico and for community and daily newspapers in Oregon and New Mexico.