Clement Girardot is a French freelance investigative reporter who writes in-depth international stories.
His work spans emerging technologies, gastronomy, religion, underground culture, climate change, and historical memory. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Le Monde Magazine, Le Temps, L'Obs, Mediapart, Eurasianet, Days Japan, Amnesty International magazine (Swiss edition), Die Wochenzeitung and others.
In 2019 he received a Journalismfund Europe grant to investigate the Nordmann Christmas tree seeds trade between Georgia and the EU. In 2019 he was selected as a reporting fellow for the spiritual exemplars research project at the University of Southern California. In 2016 he was awarded the Nicolas Bouvier reporting prize by the Geneva Press Club.
He is also a co-founder and editor of Mashallah News, an award-winning online platform founded in 2010 that challenges mainstream narratives and covers society, culture and urban issues in the Middle East. His work there has included coverage from Istanbul, co-editing a book on Beirut and training young journalists.
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