Alessia Cerantola is the editorial director of Investigate Europe. She previously worked for four years as editorial coordinator and staff reporter for the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). She began her journalistic career by working with Internazionale magazine, reporting Japanese news to an Italian audience. For fifteen years he worked from Japan for Italian newspapers such as Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Fatto Quotidiano, and for BBC World Service. He conducted a documentary for the Japanese national broadcaster NHK on his reports on the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. She worked on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation. Back in Rome, she collaborated with the La7 news programme and RAI 3“s Report programme. For her investigation on counterfeit Parma ham, she was a guest on Stanley Tucci's gastronomic programme for CNN, ”Searching for Italy'. She has carried out reportages from Europe and Asia for publications such as The Intercept, The Guardian, The Atlantic and The Japan Times. In 2013, he spent three months on a research trip to the United States, funded by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He is one of the co-founders of the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI), with which he investigated a serial rapist in Padua. The story was then turned into an episodic podcast for Verified and a documentary series for Sky TV.