Cezary Podkul is an award-winning investigative reporter with over a dozen years of experience producing ambitious, data-driven stories for news outlets including Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and, most recently, ProPublica. Cezary has covered everything from oil markets to mortgage rent fraud, healthcare and human trafficking and taught journalism at Columbia Journalism School and Hong Kong University. He is the author of the forthcoming The Big Trace — a character-driven nonfiction thriller that will expose the dark world of Southeast Asian scam compounds staffed by human trafficking victims and their unsuspecting fraud targets in the U.S. and around the world.