Monday, September 14, 2026

Sarah Steele and Lejla Sarcevic

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Sarah Steele is a Senior Research Associate at Jesus College, and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Having held posts at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford, among other institutions in the U.K., USA and Australia, Sarah is an experienced speaker, writer and researcher specializing in policy and public health analysis, as well as legal and qualitative research, as well as discourse analysis. Lejla is a Forum Senior Research Associate at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She is an investigative journalist and researcher, with a focus on corruption and tracking money and assets across borders and expertise in U.S. Freedom of Information requests. She worked on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers – a leaked cache of documents which exposed the secretive offshore finance industry.

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