I’m an award-winning journalist based in Mexico City with a track record of exposing environmental abuses and global corruption. My work has revealed BP’s carbon offset wrongdoing, the Mexican government’s role in rampant deforestation, Walmart’s tax dodging, and British companies laundering Russian oligarchs’ reputations.

This reporting has influenced industry and government policy, and been recognized with numerous awards. My story for Bloomberg on BP taking advantage of rural Mexicans for cheap carbon offsets was the lead story in a series that won an Overseas Press Club award and individually garnered a Covering Climate Now award in 2023. After my sources complained about being exploited, BP improved its pay for the thousands of people in the program, while Mexico’s president called for offset regulation, lawmakers put forward a bill and the government launched an education campaign.

I was a finalist for a Livingston Award in 2020 for my series on “Tax Haven USA” and won two NAREE awards in 2019 for an investigation showing that Kazakhstan’s First Family owned Sherlock Holmes’s £130m London home. I worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the award-winning Luanda Leaks and Mauritius Leaks.

Originally from London, I’ve lived in Moscow, Mexico City, New York and Brussels. I speak Spanish, Russian and rusty French. You can follow me on Twitter here and LinkedIn here.

Contact: mdehaldevang [at] gmail [dot] com ; maxdehaldevang [at] protonmail [dot] com