Giorgio Michalopoulos is an Italian freelance investigative journalist based in Brazil. Giorgio is specialised in environmental investigations and exposing the greenwashing of polluting companies, banks and asset managers.
His cross-border investigations have appeared in Voxeurop, The Guardian, Domani, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Mediapart, Expresso, Nacional and other European newspapers. His first investigation "How 'Green' investiments are Financing Big Carbon" won the Covering Climate Now 2024 journalism award.
Giorgio also won the CEI Seemo Award as a young professional Journalist. He is also a PhD student at the Centre for Development and Regional Planning (Cedeplar) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
