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Michael Hudson is The Guardian's U.S. head of investigations. He has been a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists over two tours totaling nearly a decade. He worked as a reporter, writer, and editor on ICIJ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation. From 2017-2019, Hudson was global investigations editor at The Associated Press, where he edited the AP’s Pulitzer-winning investigation of war crimes and corruption in Yemen and helped edit the AP’s coverage of the U.S. immigration crisis, which was a Pulitzer Finalist and was also honoured with a Robert F. Kennedy Award. He previously worked as a reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, the Wall Street Journal and the Roanoke (Va.) Times. Hudson, who spent more than a decade investigating the US subprime mortgage industry, is the author of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis (Times Books, 2010).