Elza Sandrine Sawadogo is an award-winning investigative journalist, and the editor-in-chief and director of publication of L’Economiste du Faso, the weekly economic newspaper in Burkina Faso. In 2016, she became an active member of the Norbert Zongo Cell for Investigative Journalism in West Africa (CENOZO), a project for data-based cross-border investigations in West Africa. She took on the role of CENOZO’s secretary general in 2023. Sawadogo is a member of ICIJ and has participated in a number of panels during the African Investigation Journalism Conference (AIJC). She is engaged in press freedom, and in 2022 became the local correspondent for Reporters sans Frontières (RSF).