Karlijn Kuijpers, The Netherlands, is a freelance investigative journalist at Investico and Trouw.

She participated in ICIJ’s Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations.

She works for Investico, a platform of investigative journalists, and has published in weekly De Groene Amsterdammer and daily newspapers Trouw and Het Financieele Dagblad.

She covers economics and finance, consumer debts, environmental issues and privacy.

Kuijpers has masters degrees in both environmental studies and criminology and investigated the role of international corporations in illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Trader, the Preacher, and the journalist

Karlijn Kuijpers, a freelance investigative journalist in the Netherlands, talks about her reporting that has taken a detailed look at the impact of corporate behavior — and it has made uncomfortable reading for some in her home country.

icij member Karlijn Kuijpers