Ed Davey

Ed Davey is a 42-year-old investigative reporter specialising in undercover and environmental journalism. During nine years with the BBC, Ed went undercover for Panorama, presented on the BBC World Service and worked on investigations for Newsnight, File on 4, and the national News at Six. At  Global Witness, he went on to expose corruption, human rights abuses and environmental destruction in some of the world's most beautiful but troubled countries. In 2018, he helped reveal the world's top three commodity trading houses - Glencore, Trafigura and Vitol, with a joint turnover greater than the GDP of Austria - were embroiled in Brazil's legendary Car Wash scandal. It was one of that year's biggest corruption stories. As head of Forest Investigations there, in a secret filming investigation published in 2021, he and colleagues revealed palm oil executives in Papua New Guinea bribed ministers, evaded tax, used child labour, paid police to assault protesting villagers and destroyed rainforests. Their product went to brands including Kellogg's, Danone, Nestlé, Hersheys, Colgate, Imperial Leather and Strepsils. He then spent three years as Special Correspondent for Climate Accountability at the Associated Press, holding politicians and some of the world's biggest companies to account for their contribution to global warming. He revealed widespread corruption over the cleanup of the oil-polluted Niger Delta, the theft of ancestral land from Kichwa Indigenous people in Peru, and a massive 'shadow system' of off-the-books illegal rainforest timber exports in George Weah's Liberia. Currently he is Deputy Director of the Gecko Project, a boutique investigative newsroom specialising in environment and corruption stories, where he continues to do some of his own investigations.