Advisory Board
Sheila Coronel
Sheila S. Coronel is director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and is Stabile professor of professional practice at Columbia University in New York. She began her reporting career in the Philippines, and in 1989, cofounded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism to promote investigative reporting on major social issues, including the military, poverty, and corruption. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, includingCoups, Cults & Cannibals, The Rule-makers: How the Wealthy and Well-Born Dominate Congress, and Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism in 2003. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Teaching Award by Columbia University.
Steve Doig
Steve Doig holds the Knight Chair in Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Before joining ASU in 1996, he was a reporter and research editor at The Miami Herald for 20 years. He is one of the pioneers of computer-assisted reporting and precision journalism. Data-heavy investigative projects on which he worked have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the George Polk Award, the Investigative Reporters & Editors Award, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Mei Fong
Mei Fong is an award-winning writer and journalist who covered Asia for many years as a Wall Street Journal correspondent. Her work on China won her a shared Pulitzer for International Reporting in 2007 as well as awards from Amnesty International, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Publishers of Asia. Her first book, on China’s one-child policy, was critically acclaimed and winner of a non-fiction award by the American Society of Journalists and Authors. When tightening censorship led to a scrapping of a Chinese edition of her book, Fong released a free digital version in Chinese language, paying for it through an innovative crowd-funding initiative, which she hoped would encourage other writers to find ways to circumvent censorship. Her efforts led to her being named a Top 50 influencer on US-China relations by Foreign Policy magazine. She is a fellow at the DC-based think tank New America and was previously on faculty at the University of Southern California. She is a graduate from the National University of Singapore and holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
Misha Glenny
Therese Lee
Therese Lee is Global Ethics & Compliance Counsel at Google Inc., where she is responsible for legal and regulatory compliance matters, particularly Google’s worldwide compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and international anti-bribery laws. She speaks regularly at industry and policy conferences on anti-corruption.
Prior to Google, Therese practiced at the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Washington, DC, where she specialized in FCPA matters, international litigation, and human rights cases. Therese also has worked in the Appeals Section of the Office of the Prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, researched Singapore and Malaysia’s anti-terrorism laws as a Fulbright Scholar, analyzed East Asian security issues at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and served as foreign policy adviser to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY, 1977-2001). She holds a Masters in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a law degree from UC Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University. She is a member of the Bars of California, the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals.
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Her works of fiction include The Dark Path to the River and No Marble Angels. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, Joanne is a Vice President and former International Secretary of PEN International. She serves on the boards of directors of the International Center for Journalists, PEN American Center, the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and Poets and Writers. She also serves on the boards of the International Crisis Group, Johns Hopkins University, and Refugees International, and she is an emeritus board member of Human Rights Watch and Brown University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Joanne lives in Washington, D.C.
