Emilia Díaz-Struck

Emilia Díaz-Struck, Venezuela, was ICIJ's data and research editor and Latin American partnership coordinator.

She has taken part in cross-border projects such as ICIJ’s FinCEN Files, Implant Files, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers and the Pulitzer-winning Panama Papers.

Díaz-Struck was previously the investigative reporting coordinator at the Press and Society Institute of Venezuela, and in 2012 was Reporter in Residence at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University and CONNECTAS.

She pioneered data journalism and investigative collaborations in her native Venezuela and has been a mentor to hundreds of Latin American reporters.

Díaz-Struck has taught summer seminars on data journalism at Columbia University in New York. She has been a professor at the Central University of Venezuela and a contributor for The Washington Post, the magazine Poder y Negocios, Venezuelan media El Universal, El Mundo and Armando.info, which she co-founded.

In June 2023, Díaz-Struck was announced as the new executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, an organization that supports investigative journalism around the world.