Mark Lee Hunter

Mark Lee Hunter is the principal author of Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists (UNESCO 2009). He has trained thousands of journalists to manage and write investigations.   He has also trained thousands of executives (at firms including BP PLC, Allianz and Syngenta), MBAs and PhDs at INSEAD and Rotterdam School of Management in subjects ranging from strategic alliances to networking, stakeholder relations and leadership communication. Altogether, he has taught in 40 countries on five continents. He has been based in France since 1982. Hunter's journalism earned him IRE, SDX, National Headliners, Clarion and H.L. Mencken Free Press Awards. His documentary on France’s alcohol lobby, Liquorgate (Arte), was selected for the FIPA international festival. His investigative books include a case-cracking inquiry into a murder that implicated the top ranks of the Paris art world and government, and an inquiry into France’s extreme right party, the National Front, that included sitting on its education council as a declared observer. His articles have been published by Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many others. In 2018, he pioneered investigative collaborations with NGOs in an eight-country investigation for Greenpeace. His scholarly work has been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Corporate Reputation Review and other leading journals. His most recent book with Luuk Sengers, Modern Investigative Journalism: A Comprehensive Curriculum, was published by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism in 2019. With Luk N. Van Wassenhove and Maria Besiou, he wrote Power is Everywhere: How stakeholder-driven media build the future of watchdog news (Stakeholder Media Project, 2017). The book served as the foundation text for the Future Media Management Programme at SSE Riga, which he co-founded in 2016. ‍