Tom Burgis: Following the Dirty Money That Floods the Global Economy

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Tom Burgis: Following the Dirty Money That Floods the Global Economy

Andrew Keen

Sep 13, 2020

On today's episode, Tom Burgis, Financial Times investigations correspondent and author of Kleptopia, discusses breaking the code of secrecy of money.

Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times. He has reported from more than forty countries, won major journalism awards in the US and Asia and been shortlisted for eight others, including twice at the British Press Awards. His critically acclaimed book The Looting Machine, about the modern plundering of Africa, won an Overseas Press Club of America award.

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