Oliver Steeds
Investigative Reporter @Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
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WORK HISTORY
Investigative Reporter @Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
An international investigative broadcast journalist for Channel 4’s Dispatches and Unreported World, NBC Today, ABC Nightline, Discovery Channel and Al Jazeera’s People & Power, Witness and Earthrise. Reporting recognised by the Rory Peck Impact Award, Best Current Affairs Program, Livingstone Award for Young Journalists, Emmy’s & Overseas Press Awards. Investigations included exposing chattel slavery in Niger & Mauritania; grave robbing in Peru; thousands of mentally impaired people abducted into slavery in China; antiquity smuggling in Israel; hidden ethnic wars in Burma; thousands dying in China’s coal mines; and thousands of North Korean women being forced into prostitution or sold as brides in China.Environmental investigations include revealing the Myanmar Junta’s illegal hardwood and gem trade; marine reserves to solar shipping, and from tidal power to synthetic fuel from plastics.Reporting focus included with dozens of tribal groups from Papua to the Sahara, exposing land rights violations against the Saami in Sweden, the San in Botswana, the Samburu in Kenya and Aboriginal people in Australia. In addition, historical investigations include Genghis Khan\'s Tomb, Atlantis, The Ark of the Covenant, Nazca Lines, El Dorado, and the Amber Room. In addition, hosted four international series for Discovery Channel and Travel Channel globally.
EDUCATION
Newcastle University
World Politics & Mandarin
People's University, Beijing
Mandarin
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