Julia Stein served for six years as chairwoman of Netzwerk Recherche, the professional association of investigative reporters in Germany, and continues as the group’s international representative. She is a TV reporter and head of the department Politics and Investigations at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Schleswig-Holstein, a part of the national public broadcasting network ARD, the leading TV and radio network in Germany.

Over a 20-year-career, Julia has reported about non-transparent financial and political structures and decisions, about tax stories, the global offshore economy, and the power of the media. A member of ICIJ, she coordinated the work of the NDR teams on the PanamaPapers, LuxLeaks, SwissLeaks and OffshoreLeaks projects. From 2012 until 2016, Julia was the deputy head of the investigative department of NDR and before she was head of the NDR media magazine ZAPP, a critical and investigative TV program. Her work was honoured with the “Deutscher Fernsehpreis” and the “Bert Donnepp Award,” two prestigious German journalism awards.