I’m an award-winning journalist with a track record of exposing environmental damage and global corruption. My work has revealed cartels murdering opponents of a multinational mining company, BP’s carbon offset abuses, the Mexican government’s role in rampant deforestation, Walmart’s tax dodging, the Kazakh First Family’s ownership of Sherlock Holmes’s London address and British companies laundering Russian oligarchs’ reputations.

This reporting has influenced industry and government policy, and been recognized with numerous awards. My story for Bloomberg on BP taking advantage of rural Mexicans for cheap carbon offsets was the lead story in a series that won an Overseas Press Club award and individually garnered a Covering Climate Now award in 2023. After my sources complained about being exploited, BP improved its pay for the thousands of people in the program, while Mexico’s president called for offset regulation, lawmakers put forward a bill and the government launched an education campaign.

I was a finalist for a Livingston Award in 2020 for my series on “Tax Haven USA” and won two NAREE awards in 2019 for the investigation on the Nazarbayev family owning Sherlock Holmes’s £130m Baker Street address. I worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the award-winning Luanda Leaks and Mauritius Leaks.

Originally from London, I’ve lived in Moscow, Mexico City, New York and Brussels. I speak Spanish, Russian and rusty French. You can follow me on Twitter here and LinkedIn here.

Contact: mdehaldevang [at] gmail [dot] com ; maxdehaldevang [at] protonmail [dot] com