A safe space for
Whistleblowers
EKSHEF is a platform for
whistleblowers to denounce
corruption and other abuses in
Lebanon and the Middle East.
Who We Are
It is our shared quest for accountability and our aspiration to see a Lebanon governed by the rule of law, with trusted institutions and a fair judiciary, that led us to join forces to establish a whistleblower platform.
We are four founders, each bringing expertise from our respective fields: investigation, law, strategic litigation, research, and governance.
Our objective is to support whistleblowers who hold information about corruption or human right abuses, helping them speak up safely and guiding them through this journey so that, together, we can put an end to impunity in Lebanon.
From providing legal and financial assistance to ensuring the safety of insiders who come forward, we offer a full spectrum of services—pro bono—to help change the system from within.
Corruption is not acceptable.
Speak up to break the cycle.
Meet the Team
behind Ekshef
Henri Thulliez
Henri is a lawyer at the Paris Bar and a founding member of the Whistleblower Protection Platform of Africa. He also co-founded the Climate Whistleblowers association. He is a member of the Paris Committee of Human Rights Watch, a board member of Sherpa, and an Expert Advisor at the Rule of Law Impact Lab at Stanford University. He also teaches at the University of Évry Paris-Saclay.
Zena Wakim
Zena is an international lawyer and co-founder of the Swiss Foundation Accountability Now, which focuses on ending impunity in Lebanon through investigations and strategic litigation. Before the Arab Spring changed the course of her career, she was a partner in a magic circle lawfirm in Switzerland and sat for 8 years as a Board Member of the Interpol Foundation.
Alia Ibrahim
Alia is co-founder and CEO of Daraj.com, an independent digital media platform launched in November 2017 in Lebanon. Before that, she was Senior Correspondent at Al-Arabiya News Channel. Her opinion and news stories appeared in a number of publications including The Washington Post, where she was a contributing reporter between 2005 and 2011. Since 2016, she has been an instructor of journalism at the Lebanese American University.
Nadim Houry
Nadim is the executive director of the Arab Reform Initiative. Previously, he was a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch and opened and ran the Beirut. He has also worked as deputy counsel for the UN investigation into the UN Oil-for-Food Program (the Volcker Commission) and as a lawyer at Shearman & Sterling.
Have you ever
witnessed
something
wrong and
wished there
was a safe way
to speak up?
