Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy

Claire Provost is global investigations editor at openDemocracy, a global independent media platform headquartered in London, where she leads a team of 13 investigative journalists and editors based across nine countries in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Previously, she was a fellow at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London and a data journalist at The Guardian.

Matt Kennard is co-founder, and chief investigator, at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington DC, New York, and London. He is the author of two acclaimed books: Irregular Army (2012) and The Racket (Zed, 2015).