Drew Sullivan

Drew Sullivan is a serial entrepreneur who founded and edited the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2004. He co-founded the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program (OCCRP) where he serves as editor. He founded the Journalism Development Network, an innovative media development organization with programs worldwide. As a journalist, he led a team of reporters looking at corruption by the Bosnian prime minister which led to his eventual indictment and resignation. Under his direction, OCCRP has won the Daniel Pearl Award (2 times), the Online Journalism Award (2x), the Global Shining Light Award (3x), the Tom Renner award for Crime Reporting (2x), the European Press Prize and dozens of others. He was an investigative reporter for The Tennessean and the Associated Press. He has served or is serving on the boards of Investigative Reporters and Editors, the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting, CIN and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.  Before becoming a journalist, he was a professional standup comedian and an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle Project for Rockwell Space Systems. 

Drew Sullivan won the 2015 Special Award with ‘The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’

Miranda Patrucic

Based in Sarajevo, Miranda Patrucic is an investigative reporter and regional editor for OCCRP focusing on Central Asia, the Balkans and the Caucasus. 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 $4 billion black market in endangered bluefin tuna, Swiss Leaks and Panama Papers. She is the recipient of the Knight International Journalism Award, theGlobal Shining Light Award, IRE Tom Renner Award, the Daniel Pearl Award and 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 was selected for the 2013 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘The Proxy Platform’, the 2015 shortlist with ‘Unholy Alliances’ and she won the 2015 Special Award with ‘The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’