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Cover: OCCRP and Slidstvo.info Protesters hold up barricades. member Anna Babinets reports during Photo: Kyiv Post protests in Kyiv, December 2013 2 OCCRP is a trade name of the Journalism Development Network, Inc., a Maryland 501(c)3 non-profit organization. ‘‘If we had known last January what we know today, we would have been both delighted and deeply afraid. It’s been an amazing year of successes, tribulations, lawsuits, awards, threats and constant tough reporting. But we wouldn’t want it any other way.”

Drew Sullivan, Editor of OCCRP

3 Marina Gorbis (President) David Boardman (Treasurer)

is Executive Director is Executive Editor at the of the Institute for and has Future (IFTF). Gorbis served as its Senior Vice also created the Global President since May 2010. Innovation Forum, a He is also Vice President project comparing of the American Society of innovation strategies in News Editors. He sits on different regions, founded several boards in addition the Global Ethnographic to that of OCCRP, including Network (GEN), and led the Center for Investigative IFTF’s Technology Horizons Program, focusing Reporting, and the Reporters’ Committee for on interaction between technology and social Freedom of the Press. He is a former two-time organizations. She has authored publications on president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, international business and economics, with an Inc. Under his leadership, The Seattle Times won emphasis on regional innovation. the 2012 for investigative reporting and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.

We believe in the concept of identifying members of “Uncivil Society’’: the organized crime players and corrupt politicians that harm our countries. Our task is to differentiate uncivil from civil society.

Drew Sullivan Paul Radu

is the Editor and co-founder is the Executive Director of OCCRP and served and co-founder of as its first director. He OCCRP and a co-creator founded the Journalism of the Investigative Development Network, Dashboard concept (www. an innovative media investigativedashboard. development organization org.) He is the recipient with programs worldwide. of numerous awards, He has served on the board including the Knight of directors of Investigative International Journalism Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer Assisted Reporting. Before becoming Award, the Global Shining Light Award, the Tom a journalist, he was an aerospace engineer on the Renner Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, Space Shuttle Project for Rockwell International and the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Space Systems. He worked on stories with OCCRP International Investigative Reporting. that have been awarded the Daniel Pearl Award, the Online Journalism Award for investigative reporting, the Global Shining Light Award for reporting under duress, the Tom Renner Award for Crime Reporting and many other international awards. Sheila Coronel Lowell Bergman

is the Professor of is the Reva and David Professional Practice, Logan Distinguished Columbia University, New Professor of Investigative York, as well as director of Reporting at the U.C. the Toni Stabile Center for Berkeley Graduate School Investigative Journalism. of Journalism. He has In 1989, she co-founded received the Pulitzer the Philippine Center for Prize for Public Service, Investigative Journalism awarded to The New (PCIJ) to promote York Times in 2004. investigative reporting. She has received numerous The recipient of numero