NILS MULVAD, born 1955, is beside being a partner in Kaas & Mulvad an associate professor at The Danish School of Media and Journalism. Until end 2006 he was executive director of the Danish International Center for Analytical Reporting, Dicar.

With Jack Thurston from UK-based EU Transparency he in 2005 co-founded the European network on getting data out on beneficiaries of agricultural subsidies now published on www.farmsubsidy.org.

November 2006 he was awarded European Journalist of the Year for this work and his work on access to data. In April 2007 he received the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award on Freedom of Information.

With IRE-director Brant Houston he was the main responsible for the two first Global Investigative Journalism Conferences in 2001 and 2003 in Copenhagen and was co-founder of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, www.globalinvestigativejournalism.org.