Philippe Auclair is a London-based football writer, broadcaster, and investigative journalist. He is a regular contributor to Eurosport, RTS, and the Guardian, for which he specializes in governance issues and the geopolitical dimension of football. His investigations are published by the Norwegian magazine Josimar as well as the Danish platform Play The Game and the BBC. He won France’s “Scoop Of The Year” Press Award for his France Football investigation into the “Qatargate” dossier, to which he also devoted two books, published in France and Belgium in 2015 and 2022. He has spent most of the past five years investigating the illegal sports betting industry and its links to organized crime, human trafficking and cyber slavery in Asia, as part of a multinational team which won the Investigative Journalism For Europe’s Impact Award in 2023. Philippe is also an award-winning biographer and essayist and is regularly called on as an expert by the Group of Copenhagen, for whom he has addressed the Council of Europe, French Parliament, and the United Nations on questions of governance and corruption in the football world.