The MacMillan Center and the Poynter Fellows Program & Global Justice Program presents
Paul Radu, Co-Founder and Chief of Innovation, OCCRP and Miranda Patrucic, Deputy Editor in Chief, Central Asia, OCCRP:
“Sustaining a Global, Independent Nonprofit Media Organization in the 21st Century.”
Moderated by Khadija Sharife, Senior Africa Editor, OCCRP.
Register here. https://yale.zoom.us/j/3713192937
Paul Radu is co-founder and chief of innovation at OCCRP. He leads OCCRP’s major investigative projects, scopes regional expansion and develops new strategies and technology to expose organized crime and corruption across borders. Paul initiated and led the award-winning Russian, Azerbaijani, and Troika Laundromat investigations, and coined the term “laundromat” to define large-scale, all-purpose financial fraud vehicles that are used to launder billions of dollars.
Based in Sarajevo, Miranda Patrucic is deputy editor in chief for Central Asia. She most recently worked on the award-winning Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia and the Matraimov Kingdom investigations, which resulted in protests that brought down the government in Kyrgyzstan. She has worked on investigations that exposed billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan; revealed a €1.2 billion arms trade between Europe and the Gulf that fueled conflicts in the Middle East; and exposed ties between organized crime, government, and business in Montenegro.
Based in South Africa, Khadija Sharife is an award-winning investigative journalist and senior editor for Africa at Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Sharife is the former director of the Platform for the Protection of Whistleblowers (PPLAAF) and currently also a board member of Finance Uncovered. She has worked with forums including the Pan-African Parliament, the African Union, the OECD, and UNEP. Her work is focused on illicit financial flows, natural resources, and political economy. She is the author of “Tax Us If You Can: Africa.”