Matej Šurc is a premier Slovenian reporter and one of the leading investigative journalists in Central Europe and the Balkans.
He has been reporting on foreign politics since 1988, covering the fall of communism in many Eastern European countries in the early 90s and reporting on the battlefields of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
From 1993 to 1997, he was a correspondent for the National Radio and TV of Slovenia (RTVS) in Belgrade, from where he diligently covered the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. From 1999 to 2005, he was RTVS correspondent in Washington D.C., where he reported on the events of September 11 and the American attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq.
He is a co-author of the award winning book trilogy, V imenu države which is one of the biggest undertakings in the history of investigative reporting in Slovenia. In 2016, the Slovene Association of Journalists awarded him the Watchdog price for his best-selling book Prevarana Slovenija, calling it an outstanding achievement in journalism.
