Tom Burgis

Tom Burgis is a well-known investigative journalist. After fifteen years as a correspondent with the Financial Times, he is currently a member of The Guardian’s investigative team. He has done in-depth reporting in more than forty countries, covering such subjects as war, corruption, coups d’etat, organised crime, and others. His first book The Looting Machine (William Collins, 2016), which exposes the connections between Africa’s natural resources and the numerous cases of corruption, conflicts, and corruption in the continent, received the Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award for the best non-fiction book on international affairs. In 2020, he published Kleptomania: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World (in Spanish, Dinero sucio: El poder real de la cleptocracia en el mundo, Ariel) in which he shows how the world’s kleptocrats are joining forces and threatening to undermine democracy, while also revealing the hidden connections that link apparently distant geographies and events, for example a massacre in the Kazakh Steppe and disputed elections in Zimbabwe with the City of London and the White House. Early in 2024, he published Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth (William Collins).