Thin Lei Win

Thin Lei Win is an award-winning multimedia journalist specialising in food and climate issues. She is Lead Reporter for the Food Systems Newsroom of Lighthouse Reports, a collaborative European journalism outlet focusing on public interest investigations, curates her own newsletter Thin Ink, and also writes for various international media. She previously worked as an international correspondent for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Thomson Reuters media company, for over a dozen years. She is also a sought-after speaker and moderator on food, agriculture and climate change issues. Born and raised in Myanmar, Thin has reported from many parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. She is the founder of Myanmar Now, an award-winning bilingual news agency, and co-founder of The Kite Tales, a unique preservation project chronicling the lives and histories of ordinary people across Myanmar which now supports the country’s storytellers since the 2021 coup.