Fantastic episode with a man who co-founded an organisation that pulls the thread on corruption and crime to the highest international levels. His role, and indeed the roles of his employees, is not for the faint-hearted; in fact, heartbreakingly the opposite as you’ll hear. But the work Drew and the team do is crucial as it peers back the curtain on the stain of development and true prosperity for all – corruption.
Drew Sullivan, Bosnia, is an investigative journalist who has worked for almost a decade in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2004 and served as its editor and first director. He co-founded and serves as editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program, a global network of 40 investigative reporting centers, media, and networks. He also founded the Journalism Development Network, an innovative media development organization with programs worldwide. Under his direction, OCCRP has won more than 90 international awards including the European Press Prize, the Online Journalism Award, the Global Shining Light Award and others. He previously worked as an investigative reporter for the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville and for the Special Assignment Team of the Associated Press in New York.
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Nick is someone who, in many senses, is just like you; a human being trying to make sense of this existence of ours as we hurtle around a ball of gas in a sea of infinite eternity. More relevant though are his vacillations in the world amongst diverse countries and environments
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