Matt Kennard is a Bertha Fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London. He is the author of Irregular Army (2012) and The Racket (2015) and has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in London, New York and Washington, DC. He has written for The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Guardian. He graduated as a Stabile Investigative fellow from the Columbia Journalism School.
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