Tom Burgis is an award-winning investigative journalist for the Financial Times, where he specializes in exposing global corruption and the dark world of dirty money. He has reported from Africa, Europe, and beyond, uncovering money-laundering schemes, corrupt regimes, and the exploitation of Africa's wealth by warlords, tycoons, and smugglers.

His book, "The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers and the Systematic Theft of Africa's Wealth," was published in 2015. The New York Times called it a "brave, defiant book."

Burgis won top prize for investigative reporting at the 2015 Society of Publishers in Asia awards and FT's Jones-Mauthner Memorial Prize in 2013, and was shortlisted in 2015 for the European Press Prize and Young Journalist of the Year at the 2010 British Press Awards.

Before joining the FT, he did a stint in Chile and traveled the world covering globalization and its discontents.