International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Heather Abbott, Canada, is a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), first in its radio division, and most recently as a Senior News and Documentary producer for CBC Television in London. Read Complete Profile >

Mahassen al-Emam, Jordan, is the director and founder of the Arab Women Media Center (AWMC), a nongovernmental organization in Jordan that trains women journalists and helps promote the role of media in democracy. Read Complete Profile >

Yevgenia Albats, Russia, was the first Soviet journalist to investigate the Soviet political police, the KGB, when the communist regime was still in control. She is the author of The State Within A State: KGB and Its Hold on Russia. Read Complete Profile >

Brigitte Alfter, Denmark, is a freelance journalist based in Copenhagen who specializes in European affairs. As a former Brussels correspondent for the Danish daily Information (2004-2008), Alfter has particular expertise in the use of freedom of information legislation. She is a member of the team that successfully sought data regarding the € 50-billion European farm subsidy program and is also a co-founder of www.farmsubsidy.org. Her reporting continues to track the pharmaceutical lobby in Brussels, among other industries. Read Complete Profile >

Rosental Calmon Alves, United States/Brazil, is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the first John S. & James L. Knight Chair in International Journalism. Read Complete Profile >

Bo G. Andersson, Sweden, has been an investigative reporter for Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest morning paper for almost 20 years and is its national news editor. Read Complete Profile >

Ana Arana, United States, is an investigative journalist who reports on Latin American criminal organizations. Read Complete Profile >

Rui Araujo, Portugal, is an award-winning investigative reporter who has covered wars in Angola, Zaire, Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and particularly East Timor, the former Portuguese colony under Indonesian rule. Read Complete Profile >

Pedro Enrique Armendares, Mexico, is executive director of Centro de Periodistas de Investigacion (CPI). Read Complete Profile >

Iqbal Athas, Sri Lanka, a journalist for more than 30 years, is a consultant editor and defense correspondent for The Sunday Times in Colombo, where he writes about the ongoing separatist war between government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas. Read Complete Profile >