Sasha Chavkin is a reporter for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He was ICIJ's lead reporter for the Evicted & Abandoned investigation, which explored forced displacement and human rights abuses in development projects funded by the World Bank. He was also the lead reporter for ICIJ and the Center for Public Integrity's award-winning Island of the Widows and Mystery in the Fields projects, which examined a mysterious form of kidney disease that is killing agricultural workers across continents.

Sasha has previously written for ProPublica, Columbia Journalism Review, and the New York World, an investigative website covering New York. He has reported from countries including Ethiopia, South Sudan and Honduras, and his work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Sasha holds masters degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and School of International and Public Affairs.