Gerard Ryle

Gerard Ryle is the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-award winning director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington, DC. He led the worldwide teams of journalists who worked on the Offshore Leaks, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, FinCEN Files, and Pandora Papers investigations - the six biggest cross-border collaborations in journalism history. An immigrant from Ireland, Gerard began his investigative reporting career at The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Australia. He later founded an investigative team at the Sydney Morning Herald. He was deputy editor of The Canberra Times before joining as ICIJ’s first non-American director in September 2011. He is a book author and TED speaker, and he has won or shared in more than 90 major journalism awards from eight different countries.