Lian Buan

Lian Buan is an investigative reporter of Rappler based in the Philippines, focusing mainly on human rights and criminal justice. She has investigated deaths and other irregularities in Philippine prisons; the illicit money trail of scam hubs; the killing, abduction and persecution of activists and indigenous leaders; anomalous big contracts in government, most recently of privatized water involving the country's richest man, and politician-contractors tied to the infrastructure scandal in the country. She continues to investigate Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and his alleged death squad. She has a Masters of Law in Human Rights from the Birkbeck College, University of London, where she was a Chevening scholar. She's been a journalist for nearly 15 years.