Heather Brooke is an award-winning writer, journalist and activist. Her unprecedented five-year campaign for the full disclosure of MPs’ expenses led to full-scale reform of the Parliamentary expense system and her story was made into a BBC drama ‘On Expenses’.

She is a visiting professor at City University’s Department of Journalism and has written for all the main national newspapers as well presenting and consulting for Channel 4′s Dispatches.

She is the author of Your Right to Know (Pluto Press) and The Silent State (Heinemann). Her latest book The Revolution will be Digitised explores how the internet is transforming society. As a result of her research she was able to obtain a leak out of Wikileaks for the full batch of 251,287 US diplomatic cables and worked with The Guardian newspaper on this investigation.