Tom Bergin is an investigative financial journalist for Reuters. He specialises in tax avoidance and evasion, fraud, illicit money flows and corporate safety and regulatory violations. His investigations for Reuters have revealed tax avoidance by coffee chain Starbucks, medical procurement scams in Russian hospitals, hidden losses at the Trump Organization and corruption in European football.
He has reported from 30 countries and his work has prompted parliamentary inquiries and won numerous awards in Britain, the United States and Asia, including a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the Orwell Prize for Journalism. In 2013, he was named Business Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.
His previous book, Spills & Spin: The Inside Story of BP, which lifted the lid on the corporate decisions to led to a series of disasters at the company, was named a Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year in 2011. Tom is a frequent commentator on television and radio in the UK and internationally.
Tom entered journalism in the late 1990s having previously worked as an oil broker and in asset management. Tom joined Reuters in 2001 and was one of the first journalists to report on the risks of credit derivatives, six years before the Financial Crisis. He led Reuters's coverage of the oil sector in Europe for several years and over the years has written about everything from terrorism to winemaking.
He grew up in Ireland and lives in London with his wife and two sons.
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