Category: Trainers and panelists

He was a staff writer at national newspapers and magazines in the Netherlands for sixteen years, before he founded his own company in 2005.

Since then he has taught investigative techniques to reporters and other research professionals. He still writes pieces about the environment and sustainability, and he is busy establishing an international website for stories about the transition towards a sustainable society.

Luuk is a board member of the Dutch Flemish Association of Investigative Journalists.

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In this capacity, he is responsible for the development and implementation of NATO’s programs in support of partnership, dialogue and cooperation with all non-NATO nations. Prior to that, Dr. Bin was Head of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Global Partners Section in the same Division.

Prior to joining NATO, Dr. Bin was Deputy Director of the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies at the University of Malta, where he held the Chair of International History. He was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Catania, Italy and lectured at a number of universities and other academic institutions. Prior to that, Dr. Bin worked for several years in the private sector including in the Middle East.

Dr. Bin holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His undergraduate education was in history at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome, Italy. He has published books and articles on – inter alia – Mediterranean and Middle East security.

A graduate of Tirana University, Faculty of Philosophy. Lani was also a correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ‘El Mundo’ between 1991   1993; and for ‘Zeri’ newspaper, in Pristina, between 1993 and 1995.

Lani currently works as the Executive Director of the Albanian Media Institute and is also editor of the Alternative Information Network in Tirana, the first President of the South East Network of Media Centers and Media Institutes, which brings together 17 organisations in SEE and is a founding member of the first Human Rights Group in Albania (The Forum for Human Rights).

He has written widely on Balkan affairs for local and international newspapers and magazines such as: ‘El Mundo’  Madrid, ‘The Guardian’   London, Quimera   Barcelona, The International Spectator   Rome, Futuribili  Trieste, Fokus   Skopje, Nasha Borba   Belgrade, Vreme Belgrade, Oslobodjenie   Sarajevo, Monitor   Podgorica, War Report   London, and Transition-Prague.

Lani has worked with the Aspen Institute, Berlin, the Istituto Affari Internationali-Rome, CESPI-Rome, the Center for International and Strategic Studies- Washington, the Carter Center- Atlanta, and the Hellenic Foundation-Athens on a range of Balkans related projects and has participated in numerous conferences, seminars and post graduate qualification courses in Albania, the USA, Greece, France, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, England, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland and Turkey.

He is co author of the books ‘My Albania   Ground Zero’   New York, 1992 and ‘Masters of Humanist Philosophy’, Tirana, 2000.

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Currently, he works on the editorial policy of the newspaper, management and human resources policy and oversight of the editoral team and is responsible for developing and coordinating the editorial and commercial side of Vijesti publishing.

Zeljko also was manging director of Monitor, the leading and only independent current affairs weekly news magazine covering Montenegrin and regional politics, from 1990 till 1997. He was editor-in-chief of Alternative Informative Network, a network of journalists and media people from all over the former Yugoslavia that covered events during the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

He also worked as an editorial assistant for NIN in Montenegro and he, along with his friend founded KRUG the first political magazine in Montenegro. The magazine covered issues related to civil society and the wars in the
former Yugoslavia, with a strong anti-war slant.

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He started his career reporting for the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville, Florida.

He moved to Albania in 2005 where he has been a features editor for the Tirana Times, a world news editor for the 24 hour news channel, TV Ora News, and since 2007 as BIRN Albania editor.

He has also contributed stories to various publications such as The Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, Transitions Online and World Politics Review.

In 2009 Likmeta received the CEI/SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism and in 2010 was runner up to the Global Shining Light Award, presented at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva. 

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He is one of the founder members of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists a non-profit reporters’ group headquartered in Washington DC. The ICIJ recently received worldwide prominence for its exposure of the secret ownership of thousands of offshore companies, now the subject of an unprecedented tax evasion investigation by authorities in the US, UK and Australia.

His previous work included a key role in the analysis and publication in 2010 of leaked US military and diplomatic data from Wikileaks, which also caused worldwide uproar. Other cross-border collaborations he has handled in recent years included the exposure of toxic waste-dumping in Africa by the oil traders Trafigura, and a pioneering series documenting tax avoidance by large multi-national companies.

He has won numerous awards in a 40-year career which has spanned Britain’s most famous TV programmes and newspapers. A government minister, Jonathan Aitken, went to jail as a result of a film Leigh made about his arms dealing,  for the British TV series “World in Action”. Britain’s biggest arms company, BAe Systems, was fined in excess of $300m by the US department of justice, following a 7-year campaign by Leigh in the “Guardian” to expose its network of corrupt payments all over the world.

His books include “Wikileaks: inside Julian Assange’s war on secrecy”; “High Time”, a biography of international cannabis smuggler Howard Marks; and “The Wilson Plot”, a study of misconduct by Western intelligence agencies.

Between 2004 and 2005, he wrote investigative stories for a weekly paper also based in Iasi. The paper, “Ieseanul”, is part of a national network owned by the media group Media Pro.

In 2005, Prisacariu became a investigative reporter for the national daily “Evenimentul Zilei”, based in Bucharest and owned by the Swiss media group Ringier. He moved to the national weekly “Academia Catavencu” in 2006 as head of the investigative department. “Academia Catavencu” is owned by businessman Sorin Ovidiu Vintu, who also owns several papers, two radio stations and a TV station.

In March 2010, Prisacariu decided to resign because of the owner’s repeated acts of censorship; he then started, together with several colleagues from “Academia Catavencu”, a new weekly paper. He is now a deputy editor-in-chief for this new national weekly, “Kamikaze”.

Catalin Prisacariu is a member of the Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism (www.crji.org), a non-governmental organization established by investigative journalists. Prisacariu is involved in many projects run by the centre, covering stories about human trafficking, corruption, organized crime, and other topics.

Prisacariu has also worked for papers and TV stations based in other European countries (Financial Times, ARD, ZDF, Television Suisse Romande).

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She is currently working on a major investigation into corruption in Fifa and the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid based on a cache of hundreds of millions of leaked documents which made headlines around the world this summer.

Her scoops have made waves in the worlds of politics, sport, business, defence, health and security. Insight’s investigation into abuse of small businesses by the publicly-owned bank RBS sparked a major inquiry by the financial services watchdog last year after the team’s evidence was passed to the secretary of state for business by a senior government advisor. Two peers were suspended from the House of Lords after Insight caught them offering to pull strings in the Parliament for six-figure sums. When the team caught retired military chiefs offering to push state arms deals for cash, the defence secretary responded by banning 2,500 retired officers from entering the Ministry of Defence. Insight’s exposure of the black market in Olympic tickets on the eve of the London Games resulted in a string of convictions and prompted the International Olympics Committee to overhaul its entire ticketing system.

Heidi started out as a graduate trainee at The Daily Telegraph in 2008 and went on to work as a general news reporter and then investigations reporter at the paper before leaving to join The Sunday Times as deputy Insight editor in 2011. She was promoted to assistant editor in March this year. She has won or been short-listed for more than a dozen national journalism awards.

She has a degree in journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, and obtained her M.A. degree in political science at the University of Freiburg.

In 2013, she spent five months as an intern in the German Bundestag as part of the International Parliamentary Scholarship programme.

Her fields of research include defence integrity, parliamentary oversight of security actors, and public opinion on security issues.

Sheridan is the former Director of Innovation at Storyful, which was sold to News Corp in 2013. At Storyful he developed the methodologies for UGC discovery and verification that drove the newsroom, and was responsible for the development of event detection, recommendation and content discovery software. He is also an access to information (FOIA) specialist/trainer and an investigative/data journalist.