Guilherme Amado is an investigative journalist, born in Rio de Janeiro, with extensive experience in reporting on corruption, organized crime, drug trafficking, and human rights violations. He served as vice president of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and was a director of the organization for six years. Amado has worked for some of Brazil’s leading media outlets, such as O Globo, Veja, and Época.
As an author, Amado published “Sem máscara — o governo Bolsonaro e a aposta pelo caos” (“Unmasked — the Bolsonaro government and the bet on chaos”). In 2017-2018, he was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he studied collaboration among investigative journalists. Amado is also a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He has received several of Brazil’s most prestigious journalism awards, including the Esso, Tim Lopes, and Comunique-se awards.