Deborah Davies
Al Jazeera
Reporter, Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
Deborah Davies is a multi-award winning investigative TV reporter. She's covered the world's most troubled areas, from Northern Ireland in the 80's, Bosnia, Iraq and the Soviet Union in the 90's to modern day Congo, Pakistan and almost all of the Middle East. She's frequently gained exclusive access to break stories which later lead the news agenda. This includes the first ever films about Osama bin Laden and exposing Iraqi police death squads.
Several of her UK investigations on rape, domestic violence and murder have changed the way the UK criminal justice system investigates these crimes.
With a team from Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit she's made three high profile films, two of them sports stories, one on doping in sport and the other, a follow up to her ground-breaking film from 20 years ago which investigated paedophile football coaches abusing young players - a story which returned to the headlines in 2016.
Her third film, The Poachers Pipeline exposed Chinese criminals involved in the illegal rhino horn trade. The film has won half a dozen awards around the world and led to a major political scandal in South Africa.
Deborah is proud to have been a reporter, working with brilliant production teams, on films that have won awards worldwide, including from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, Foreign Press Association, Monte Carlo Film Festival, Women in Television.
