Meet the Winners of the 2021 Blueprint Whistleblowing Prizes

  • Daniel Hale

    Daniel Hale is the recipient of the 2021 Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize. Daniel Hale blew the whistle on the US drone programme, allowing the public to understand for the first time how strikes are authorised, how the system works for those embedded in it, and its overwhelming inaccuracy

  • Jonathan Taylor

    Jonathan Taylor alerted the authorities to large-scale, systematic corruption in the oil industry. He is the winner of the 2021 Blueprint UK Whistleblowing Prize.

  • BAT whistleblowers

    Francois van der Westhuizen, Pieter Snyders and Paul Hopkins

    The three winners of the 2021 Blueprint UK Whistleblowing Prize have shown the incredible lengths BAT has gone to in order to maintain its control of tobacco markets in Africa

  • Daniel Ellsberg

    Daniel Ellsberg

    Daniel Ellsberg is possibly the most famous whistleblower in the world. He is the winner of the 2021 Blueprint Lifetime Achievement award.

  • Babita Deokaran

    Babita Deokaran

    South African health procurement whistleblower Babita Deokaran, winner of the 2021 Blueprint for Free Speech Special Recognition Award, was gunned down outside her home in what the authorities believe was a targeted killing

  • Thabiso Zulu

    Thabiso Zulu

    Thabisu Zulu is awarded with the 2023 Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize. He blew the whistle on corruption involving fellow members of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC)

  • Margaret Mitchell

    Margaret Mitchell

    Margaret Mitchell, winner of the 2021 Blueprint for Free Speech Special Recognition Award, was the founder of Google’s ethical artificial intelligence team

  • Pav Gill

    Pav Gill

    Pav Gill provided the Financial Times with information that eventually exposed the biggest accounting fraud Germany had seen for a generation. He is the winner of the 2021 Blueprint Special Recognition Award.