Dapo Olorunyomi is an award-winning reporter and editor with varied experience in Nigeria and internationally. He was one of the two only Nigerian past recipients of the International Editor of the Year Award. He also won the Freedom to Write prize and the Press Freedom award from PEN (West) and the National Association of Black Journalists respectively.

He was co-founder of The News magazine in Lagos; was enterprise editor at Next Newspapers, and founder of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.

He served as director and chief of staff of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from 2005 until 2008, voluntarily resigning when the then EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, was illegally dismissed in 2008.

Olorunyomi worked as a journalist during the military regime of Sani Abacha before moving to the United States, where he worked, first, as Senior Fellow, Africa, at the Washington DC offices of Panos Institute, and later as the Nigeria Project Director for Freedom House. He returned to Nigeria in 2005 to work for the EFCC.

He has won numerous other awards for his work in journalism.