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, the 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 forced the downfall of four world leaders – the Prime Ministers of Pakistan, Iceland, Malta and the Czech Republic - and prompted government inquiries and legislative reform across the world. Many people went to jail as result of these reports, and they led to official inquiries in 79 countries.