Holly Watt

Holly Watt is a British is an international thriller author and Journalist. Watt got her start at the “Sunday Times” before she moved to the “Daily Telegraph,” where she worked for six years working as the leader of the investigations team and Whitehall Editor. She then moved to the “Guardian,” where she also worked on the investigations team. During this time, she has received nominations for several prizes in journalism and won several awards the most prominent of which were for her work on the “Panama Papers” and “MPs’ Expenses” at the Telegraph. In 2008, she worked at the “Post,” having won the Laurence Stern Fellowship. She got nominations for the Scoop of the Year five times while working for the expenses team at the Telegraph. Watt made the shortlist for Political Journalist of the Year and News Reporter of the Year in 2011 and Young Journalist of the Year in 2010. During her time working with a variety of publications, she has been to several countries including Lebanon, Afghanistan, Jordan, Bangladesh and Libya.