Pavla Holcová is an investigative journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of investigace.cz, and a regional editor at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Her work has won numerous international journalism awards, including the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism for the Pegasus Project, the ICFJ Knight International Journalism Award, the WJP Anthony Lewis Prize for exceptional journalism on the rule of law, the Global Shining Light Award (more than once), the EU Investigative Journalism Award, and the Allard Prize. She also received the Pulitzer Prize for the Panama Papers investigation. Before founding investigace.cz, she spent six years at People in Need, where she headed the Cuba Section.