Oleg Khomenok is member of GIJN’s Board of Directors, and a chair of the board of the Regional Press Development Institute. He is also an expert at the International Fact-Checking Network and a member of the Commission on Journalistic Ethics of Ukraine, and has over 30 years of experience in investigative journalism, training, and managing investigative reporting projects across Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Khomenok has eight years of experience working as a reporter investigating political campaigns and ethnic minority issues in Crimea. He co-founded and managed SCOOP project in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia from 2003 to 2018. He is also co-founder of two Ukrainian members of GIJN: the Crimean Center for Investigative Reporting and the Regional Press Development Institute. From 2015 to 2019 he was deeply involved in establishing of n-vestigate, a cross-border network of investigative journalists in Eastern Europe. For the last 17 years, Khomenok has played a key role in organizing the annual Ukrainian Investigative Journalism Conference, a major regional event that brings together reporters from Western media alongside colleagues from Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, and MENA to exchange best practices, share lessons and launch collaborative projects.
As coordinator of the award-winning YanukovychLeaks.org, Khomenok worked with a team of Ukrainian reporters who collected tens of thousands of financial documents from the former Ukrainian president, rescuing and publishing them online. Over the past two decades he has conducted more than a hundred training sessions on investigative journalism techniques and strategies for investigative reporters in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and authored several investigative journalism text-books and manuals in Ukrainian, Russian, English and Kazakh languages.