Evelyn Groenink
AIPC and ZAM Coordinating editor
Johannesburg
Evelyn Groenink has partnered with colleagues in Africa since 2003. As founding director of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters she oversaw transnational investigations into Africa’s social bandits, the pharmaceutical industry, Fair Trade and soccer corruption. After FAIR, she moved on to initiate similar African-Western cooperation within the AIPC-ZAM partnership. As investigations editor of ZAM, which publishes investigative stories from African journalists for an international audience, she has pioneered a process of co-creation, whereby African investigations are marketed to international audiences. Some of the more recent pan-African investigations done this way dealt with Bill Gates' malaria efforts, development aid in general, land conflicts between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers and plunder by African leaders of the countries they rule.