Marcos Garcia Ray (Spain) is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor.
He is also an investigative journalism trainer and a PhD candidate at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Deeply committed to non-partisan and non-activist investigative journalism, he is motivated to uncover the hidden stories about the illegal and unethical activities of the powerful, whoever they may be.
He has been a boots-on-the-ground reporter from countries on four continents. Since 2010, he has worked on more than 25 cross-border investigations. 15 of them in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (as a contractor or from a media partner), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers. Other bylines in media like The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, Agencia EFE, El Mundo, El Confidencial, Civio, ABC, eldiario.es, El Periódico de Catalunya, La Vanguardia, Armando.info, National Geographic, etc.
Among other investigations, he collaborated on The Bluefin Tuna Black Market, Pesticides at Work, Luanda Leaks, The Fraud Factory, Caspian Cabals, Pandora Papers, The Recovery Files, Venezuela Leaks, The Falciani List (Swiss Leaks), The MEPs Project, Asbestos: The Lethal Legacy, The Implant Files, The Chlorpyrifos Case, Paradise Papers, Implant Files.
He has a passion for sharing his knowledge on investigative journalism methods and techniques with young reporters. In 2012, he co-founded the first Masters in Investigative Reporting, Data Journalism and Visualisation in Spanish (Unidad Editorial/El Mundo/ Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) and was its academic coordinator until 2017. Nowadays, he teaches in three master's programmes in Spain and Mexico.
From 2019 to 2023, he was a juror for the European Cross-Border Grants programme of Journalismfund Europe.
He has co-authored several books, including 'Vidas rotas' (2010), an acclaimed work on the terrorist organisation ETA; he has also published several books of poetry.
He loves chess, cooking, gastronomy, reading, writing poetry, art, sports, and hiking. He is a Real Madrid, Bach and Purcell fan.
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