Andrei Popoviciu

Andrei Popoviciu is an independent investigative journalist, reporter, audio-visual producer and photographer covering human rights, security, migration, international development and foreign affairs stories across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently based in Dakar, Senegal but has reported from Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, DR Congo, the Gambia, Senegal, Chad, Sweden, France, France, Romania, Moldova and Serbia. He has experience of working in hostile environments and has received first aid and hostile environment training. 

His reporting and writing appeared in the Guardian, Al Jazeera English, the Telegraph, New Lines Magazine, Foreign Policy, In These Times, Libération, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, VICE World News, Middle East Eye, the Calvert Journal, Are We Europe and the Daily Star Lebanon. Andrei also produces long-form narrative audio stories, with notable work in Are We Europe, the Europeans and Kerning Cultures podcasts, but also radio news reports, having worked for media like RFI. He also films, edits and produces news packages for TV and short documentaries. 

Andrei has won or been nominated for several awards for his investigative work, including the Ján Kuciak Award for Investigative Journalism, the One World Media's New Voice Award, the De Tegel Award, the IJ4EU Impact Award, the Fetisov Award and the Signal Gold and Listener's Choice Awards. In 2023, he was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. 

He earned his bachelor's degree in international relations and war studies from King's College London and his double master's degree in journalism and international human rights and humanitarian law from Sciences Po Paris.