Stéffie Banatvala is a freelance investigative journalist who specialises in exposing human rights violations in the energy sector, conflict and global supply chains.
Stéffie combines human-led, on-the-ground reporting with open-source intelligence and data analysis.
She has worked on international news desks at The Independent, AFP and the Financial Times, as well as in trade and business journalism at DN Media and LSE Business Review. She has worked across India, the Middle East and Africa, interviewing everyone from freedom fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan and protesters in Iran to residents of peace confederation villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She was a Climate Arena Investigative Fellow in 2025, and was part of the Atlantic Council's digital forensics cohort in 2026.
