Gerard Ryle (born 1965) is an Irish-Australian investigative reporter who has written on subjects including politics, financial and medical scandals, and police corruption. From 2011, he has been director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which has published research on international tax evasion and money laundering, citing the leaked

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Early life

Gerard Ryle was born in

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to Irish parents. From Tralee,

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in Ireland, he worked for the Irish Press in his early career. His great-grandfather, Maurice P Ryle, was also a journalist : he was the editor of the ''Kerry People,'' then worked as editor of the ''Evening Herald'' and deputy editor of the ''Irish Independent''.

Career

Ryle emigrated from his native Ireland to

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in 1988 and has worked for the

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'' and the ''

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''. In 2007-2009, he exposed the international fraudster Tim Johnston who had deceived the governments of Australia, Britain, Russia and other countries over the Firepower Pill. In September 2011, he was appointed Director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a project of the Center for Public Integrity in

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, USA. In April 2013, ICIJ published a financial leak, the Offshore leaks, comprising tens of thousands of offshore bank accounts, in which many prominent international figures were implicated, including the ex-wife of Marc Rich, Azerbaijan's ruling family, the daughter of Imelda Marcos, and the late Baron Elie de Rothschild. The leak was the largest ever, at more than 160 times the size in gigabytes of the WikiLeaks Cablegate in 2010. "To analyze the documents, ICIJ collaborated with reporters from ''The Guardian'' and the BBC in the U.K., ''Le Monde'' in France, ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' and ''Norddeutscher Rundfunk'' in Germany, ''The Washington Post'', the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and 31 other media partners around the world."Ryle, Gerard et al
Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
at ICIJ official website, 3 April 2013. Accessed 7 April 2013 The 15-month investigation began when Ryle brought ICIJ a hard drive that he received by mail from an anonymous informant.

Selected publications

*
Firepower: The most spectacular fraud in Australian history''
Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2009.

References

External links

*
What does it take to create one of the country's most spectacular frauds?
' (Audio) Interview with Gerard Ryle, Australian ABC Radio National, 30 April 2009
Gerard Ryle talking about the Panama Papers.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ryle, Gerard Living people Australian investigative journalists Irish emigrants to Australia 1965 births 20th-century Australian journalists 21st-century Australian journalists