Dinner & Conversation with 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 collaborations in journalism history.

The work of he and his colleagues helped force the downfall of four world leaders – the Prime Ministers of Pakistan, Iceland, Malta and the Czech Republic - and prompted legislative reform across the world. Several people went to jail, including one Prime Minister, as result of these reports. They led to official inquiries in more than 70 countries and caught the attention of Hollywood.

Under Gerard’s leadership, ICIJ has gone from obscurity to one of the best-known journalism brands in the world. He has been credited with revolutionizing the way investigative journalism is done, helping convince many of the world’s biggest and smallest media companies to join forces to work together on global stories. The Pandora Papers project involved more than 600 journalists at more than 150 news outlets in 117 countries working together.

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