Clare Rewcastle Brown

Clare Rewcastle Brown is a British investigative journalist and founder of Sarawak Report and Radio Free Sarawak, platforms that exposed major corruption in the Malaysian government. Her investigations revealed the 1MDB scandal, which shook the global financial community and contributed to the fall of Malaysia’s government in 2018. Her work has appeared widely and has earned international recognition and numerous awards, including the UN’s Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Anti-Corruption Excellence Award, the Guardian Award for International Fraud Reporting, Great Britain’s Women of the Year Award and the International Press Institute’s Pioneer of Media Freedom Award. Fortune magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.