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Gerard Ryle with Jas Randhawa
How the Panama Papers Changed the World
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A decade after the Panama Papers exposed the hidden world of offshore finance, the investigation’s consequences continue to unfold. Governments have recovered at least $1.4 billion, transparency laws have changed, and investigative journalism has been transformed. But financial secrecy has evolved alongside these reforms.
Join Gerard Ryle, executive director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, for a conversation with financial crime expert Jas Randhawa about the investigation that reshaped public understanding of offshore finance and sparked arrests, legislation and political resignations. Together, they’ll examine how secrecy influences markets and erodes public trust, why transparency is democracy’s best defense against corruption and what leaders across industries can learn from one of the largest collaborative investigations ever undertaken.
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Gerard Ryle is executive director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the nonprofit global newsroom behind the Panama Papers investigation, which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and helped establish a new model for collaborative cross-border reporting. Under his leadership, ICIJ has expanded its global network and has continued to expose corruption, injustice and abuses of power around the world through investigations including the Pandora Papers, Cyprus Confidential, China Targets, The Coin Laundry and Cancer Calculus. ICIJ’s reporting has prompted criminal investigations, policy reforms and the recovery of more than $1.4 billion in tax dollars.
In 2021, ICIJ was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of its groundbreaking collaborative investigations, including the Panama Papers and Pandora Papers, which exposed corruption, financial secrecy and illicit money flows around the world.
Jas Randhawa is managing partner at StrategyBRIX, a boutique risk and compliance consulting firm. Previously, he led financial crimes and compliance at leading fintechs including Stripe and Airwallex. At PwC, he built and led the firm’s financial crimes practice across the U.S. West Coast. As a member of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, he advised the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on digital identity verification, know-your-customer requirements and advanced technologies to combat financial crime. Jas is a frequent speaker at industry events, a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and an executive committee member of the West Coast AML Forum.
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