Christopher Hird

Christopher Hird is the founder of Dartmouth Films (www.dartmouthfilms.com) which has pioneered new ways of funding, producing and distributing impact feature documentaries in the UK. A former investment analyst in the City, he worked as a journalist on the Economist, Daily Mail, New Statesman and Sunday Times, where he was editor of Insight, before moving into television and then film. He is a former managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the author of Investigative Journalism Works: The Mechanism of Impact. He is currently a trustee of the Wincott Foundation.