Based in Sarajevo, Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter and regional editor for Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. As an independent and critical journalist, she is a true guardian of democracy, for quality journalism is vital for healthy democracies. Highlights of her work include exposing billions in telecom bribes in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, uncovering hidden assets of Azerbaijan's and Montenegro's ruling elites, the €1.2 billion arms trade between Europe and Gulf fueling conflicts in the Middle East, and ties between organized crime, government and business in Montenegro. She collaborated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on a project involving tobacco smuggling, the US$ 4 billion black market in endangered bluefin tuna, Swiss Leaks and Panama Papers. She is the recipient of the Knight International Journalism Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the IRE Tom Renner Award, the Daniel Pearl Award and the European Press Prize. She is much in demand worldwide for training journalists on how to investigate and uncover corruption, money laundering and how to follow the money. Miranda Patrucic will tell us about the important role that journalists have, especially in fragile democracies.
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