The centre for investigative journalism (cij) is a non-profit registered charity, governed by a board of directors. We are subject to oversight from the Charities Commission and Companies House.
As a non-profit, we receive advice and expertise from leading figures in the field of investigative journalism.
cij board
Elaine Potter (chair), Brian Basham, James Lee, David Leigh, Gavin Millar QC
cij advisors
Lowell Bergman
PBS Frontline, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize 2004.
Raj Bairoliya
Forensic account with FTI Consulting.
Duncan Campbell
Freelance investigative journalist and television producer.
Jenny Chryss
Producer BBC Radio 4.
Ray Fitzwalter
Author and programme maker; executive producer World in Action, and head of current affiars Granada television 1987-93. Author of The Dream that Died – The Rise and Fall of ITV.
Michael Gillard
Writes for The Mail on Sunday, the Guardian, Observer, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, television and radio.
Stephen Grey
Writer and broadcaster. Author of Ghost Plane.
Luc Hermann
Luc is co-director and executive producer of Premières Lignes, a French independent television news agency that produes investigative documentaries.
Isabel Hilton
Isabel Hilton fomer editor-in-chief of the openDemocracy.net website and is now the editor of chinadialogue, and writes regularly for the Guardian.
Peter Hounam
Former Sunday Times Insight Team.
Mark Hunter
Writer, filmmaker and professor at the Institut Français de Presse of the Université de Paris.
Andrew Jennings
Investigated organised crime before focussing on corruption at the International Olympic Committee and FIFA. Also writes books, makes films and contributes to publications.
Jeff Katz
Chief executive of Bishop International, corporate investigators.
Phillip Knightley
Writer and journalist, author of The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker.
Paul Lashmar
Paul Lashmar is a journalist and university lecturer who has covered many of the major stories of the last 30 years. He is also an author and TV producer.
Melanie McFadyean
Freelance writer and lecturer, City University.
David Miller
Professor of Sociology, Strathclyde University, Glasgow and writer on propaganda, spin and lobbying. Co-founder of Spinwatch.
George Brock
Head of Journalism and Publishing, City University.
John Pilger
Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker.
Michael Ryan
Director of World in Action, What the Papers Say.
Martin Tomkinson
Financial journalist and corporate investigator for all UK national newspapers.
Rosie Waterhouse
Freelance journalist for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, BBC Newsnight, lecturer City University.
Martin Welz
Editor and publisher Noseweek, South Africa.
cij patron
Harold Evans
Author; The American Century, We the People and The BBC Reports: On America, its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorism. Former editor Sunday Times 1967-81. President Random House 1990-97.