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András Pethő

Direkt36
Executive director, Hungary
Andras Petho is co-founder and executive director of Direkt36, an investigative journalism center in Hungary. During his 20-year-long career, Andras was a senior editor for leading Hungarian news site Origo, worked for the BBC World Service in London, and was a reporter at the investigative unit of The Washington Post. He has contributed to several international reporting projects, including The Panama Papers and the Pegasus Project. He has overseen the production of several investigative documentary films as producer. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2019/20.