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Mar Cabra

Head of Data & Research Unit
ICIJ

Mar Cabra is the head of the Data & Research Unit at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which produces the organisation’s key data work and also develops tools for better collaborative investigative journalism. She has been an ICIJ staff member since 2011, and is also a member of the network. Mar fell in love with data while being a Fulbright scholar and fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in 2009/2010. She previously worked in television (BBC, CCN+ and laSexta Noticias) and her work has been featured in the International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post, PBS, El País, El Mundo or El Confidencial, among others. In 2012 she received the Spanish Larra Award to the country’s most promising journalist under 30.

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