Atanas Tchobanov
Journalist, France
Tchobanov has contributed to many cross-border investigation cases
concerning hidden assets in Bulgaria by foreign officials and abuse of
EU money. He holds a PhD in computational linguistics from Paris
Nanterre University and works as a senior research engineer in CNRS. In
his journalistic activity he is also interested in big data harvesting
and exploring, forensic methods, and encryption techniques for
protecting the communications and the journalistic sources. Tchobanov is
a co-recipient of the Serbian National Award for Investigative
Reporting for 2016 and 2017. In 2016 he was elected member of the Board
of the investigative reporting network OCCRP.
- Languages
- Bulgarian, English, Russian