Tom Burgis

Tom Burgis is the Financial Times’ investigations correspondent, based in London. Previously he was posted in Johannesburg and Lagos. Tom has investigated corruption and money-laundering from Kazakhstan to Angola to Manhattan, the far-right, terrorist networks in Europe and China’s quest for Africa’s resources. He has won awards for his reporting and for his first book, The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth. 

Tom Burgis was selected for the 2017 European Press Prize shortlist with ‘Dark Money: London’s Dirty Secret’