Frederik Obermaier

Frederik Obermaier, from Germany, is a book author and Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter. He is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Together with his colleague Bastian Obermayer, he founded the Munich-based investigative newsroom Paper Trail Media (www.papertrailmedia.de), which publishes in DER SPIEGEL, ZDF, DER STANDARD, and TAMEDIA. Together with Obermayer, he initiated major investigations such as the Panama Papers, the Bahamas Leaks, and the Paradise Papers. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the CNN Award, the Otto Brenner Prize, the renowned Wächterpreis, the Henri Nannen Prize, the Reporterpreis, and the Helmut Schmidt Journalistenpreis. He has also shared joint awards with his ICIJ colleagues, including the Scripps Howard Award, the George Polk Award for Business Reporting, the Barlett & Steele Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award, and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. In 2017, he was further honored with the Murrey Marder Fellowship in Watchdog Journalism at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. Obermaier also serves on the board of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ).