Petra Blum is a trained business journalist. After graduating, she was a radio and TV editor at RBB, then moved to the Handelsblatt publishing group and from there to the German public broadcaster WDR, where she worked for almost 14 years. At WDR, she was responsible for the major cross-border investigations together with the research cooperation and international partners, from Panama to Pandora Papers. In 2017, she was a winner of the German Television Award and the Pulitzer Prize together with the Panama Papers team. In 2018, she won second place in the Helmut Schmidt Journalism Prize with the Pandora Papers team, and in 2020, again with the respective team, the German Television Prize with the documentary "The Uncanny Power of Advisors." Petra Blum is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Her areas of expertise include the financial industry, everything to do with offshore and white collar crime, and environmental crime. She is also a lecturer in storytelling at the University of Mannheim and the author of several non-fiction books.