Kuang Keng Kuek Ser

Kuang Keng Kuek Ser is the senior editor for rainforest investigations at the Pulitzer Center, where he leads the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN), a year-long fellowship program that supports journalists in pursuing cross-border investigative reporting on the drivers of environmental degradation in tropical rainforest regions.

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Keng is a data journalist and media trainer specializing in investigative journalism. He founded Data-N, a Malaysia-based media consultancy that has worked with organizations such as Google News Initiative and Internews to train more than 1,000 journalists across Asia in data journalism, OSINT and environmental reporting.

He serves as competition officer of the Sigma Awards, which he helped establish in 2019. In Malaysia, he co-founded the Malaysia Information Literacy Education (MILE) initiative and JomCheck, Malaysia’s first and only fact-checking alliance.

Keng began his career in 2005 at Malaysiakini and has worked with NBC News, Foreign Policy, and PRI.org. His data and environmental reporting has earned multiple honors. He was a Fulbright scholar, Google Journalism Fellow, and Tow-Knight Fellow.