Category: Speaker-23

Emma Bergmans is a safety specialist currently working on issues related to the online harassment of (women) journalists, legal intimidation of media workers, and the importance of media in exile in Free Press Unlimited’s Policy & Advocacy team. Previously, Bergmans coordinated FPU’s Safety & Emergency Assistance programme, providing rapid support to journalists worldwide facing a… Continue reading Emma Bergmans

Julia Amberger is an award-winning investigative reporter and researcher based in Berlin. She reports mostly from African and European countries focusing on immersive storytelling and investigations. Amberger has uncovered a corrupt network within UNHCR offices in Uganda and Kenya and explored how blast fishing along the east African coast goes together with the smuggling of… Continue reading Julia Amberger

Jon West is a documentary filmmaker, freelance journalist, and researcher based in Finland. He has been working in the media industry since 1993. Jon’s recent works include, “Pedigree Dream”, a documentary trilogy about the European dog trade and “Syntynyt kauppatavaraksi” (Born as a Merchandise) a 10-episode adaptation of Pedigree Dream, aired in Finnish TV broadcaster… Continue reading Jon Erik West

Ovidiu Stancu has a background as an independent video producer, being involved in various projects, such as documentaries, short and long feature films, working with internationally awarded directors from Romania such as Radu Jude, Paul Negoescu, and Marian Crisan. He is one of the in-house video producers for Vice Romania working on creating local content… Continue reading Ovidiu Dunel Stancu

Tim Luimes is an investigative journalist specialising in corporate harm by the chemical, tobacco and food industry. He is deputy editor-in-chief at the Amsterdam-based journalism collective The Investigative Desk. He initiated the Forever Pollution Project, which revealed pollution by “forever chemicals” across Europe. Currently, he is focussing on exposing tax avoidance and evasion by Western… Continue reading Tim Luimes

Journalist for more than seven years, Emmanuelle Picaud has investigated various subjects, from the ecological transition of architecture to academic research in the field of social sciences. She became a freelancer in 2021 after five years of writing in French specialised press as a section editor. Since this period, she has published investigations in the… Continue reading Emmanuelle Picaud

Giada Santana is an Italian – Dominican journalist based in Paris, focused on stories at the intersection of social justice and climate. Santana has a passion for audio stories, but works in print and video, as well. She recently published a multimedia, cross border investigation regarding the impact of hotter temperatures on the living and… Continue reading Giada Santana

Hanna Jarzabek lived in Geneva between 1996 and 2008, where she finished her Master’s in Political Science and worked as an analyst-political scientist, preparing reports on refugees for UN agencies such as UNRWA, OCHA, UNCTAD. She developed her passion for documentary photography on trips to the Philippines, the Gaza Strip and Iran (2001, 2002-2003 and… Continue reading Hanna Jarzabek

Albert Lores is a Spanish photojournalist, based in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2017. He contributes regularly to Le Figaro and El Mundo, and has been reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014. His work has also been published in outlets like Vice, Liberation, Delft, and Tagesspiegel among others. Before his focus on Ukraine, Albert covered areas… Continue reading Albert Lores

Louis Goddard is co-founder of Data Desk, an investigative consultancy, where he leads the research function. He previously worked at Global Witness and The Times of London producing data-driven investigations, including as part of a high-impact campaign against Russian fossil fuel exports. He studied at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge and has a PhD… Continue reading Louis Goddard