Expert Council

Musikilu Mojeed is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Nigeria´s Premium Times newspaper. Mojeed is an award-winning journalist and a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). A 2012 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, and 2009 Ford Foundation International Fellow at The City University of New York, Mojeed was a Jury member of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Awards, completing his three-year tenure in 2016. Mojeed shared a Pulitzer for his team’s groundbreaking reporting on the Panama Papers. He has also been honoured with the Global Shining Light Award, FAIR’s Editor’s Courage Award, the Wole Soyinka Investigative Reporting Awards, Global Editor's Network’s Data Journalism Award. Mojeed is a trustee of the Global Media Campaign to End Female Genital Mutilation and was on the board of the Forum for African Investigative Reporters. He is a member of the U.S-based Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). He chairs the Board of the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism and is a creator of two important platforms: nigeriapolicewatch.com and imoleng.com. Mojeed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts (the University of Uyo, Nigeria), and a Master’s Degree in Journalism (the Graduate School of Journalism, the City University of New York).