Christian Zurita is a prominent investigative journalist with three decades of experience shedding light on issues of corruption, organized crime, and drug trafficking in Ecuador, among other topics. He currently serves as a fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
From 2002 to 2008, he served as the head of the 24-hour news investigation unit at Telemazonas, and later as the investigation editor at Expreso until 2011. He co-founded the influential platforms Fundacion Mil Hojas and Periodismo de Investigación and authored several books, including Big Brother (2010, with Juan Carlos Calderon) and Arroz Verde (2019, with Fernando Villavicencio).
Zurita has earned the National Journalism Award and the Data Journalism Award from the Inter-American Press Association (SIP). In 2023, he supported the presidential campaign of his friend, Fernando Villavicencio, and was selected as the presidential candidate for Movimiento Construye following Villavicencio’s public assassination on August 9, 2023.
Zurita was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
