Laurent Richard is a French documentary filmmaker, producer, and founder of Forbidden Stories, a network of investigative journalists devoted to keeping stories alive. The consortium of journalists continues the work of threatened, jailed, or assassinated journalists. Their first project was the Daphne Project.

Richard has directed investigative documentaries for 20 years, and co-founded the French investigative television program, Cash Investigation.

Laurent Richard was a Knight-Wallace Fellow in 2017 at the University of Michigan and was named European Journalist of the year 2018 by the Prix Europa in Berlin.