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Robert Cribb is the founder and director of the Investigative Journalism Bureau. He has received national and international reporting awards for investigations into offshore tax evasion, child exploitation, human trafficking, dangerous doctors, environmental threats and public safety. He was part of the international reporting team that produced the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation in 2017. Cribb is the former president of the Canadian Association of Journalists, the first international board member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and current president of Canadian journalism charity, Veritas. He teaches investigative reporting at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Journalism and the University of Toronto.