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Kert Davies is a researcher, media spokesperson, and climate activist who has been conducting corporate accountability research and campaigns for nearly 30 years, working in the Washington DC area. Davies was the research director at Greenpeace U.S. for thirteen years, then founded the Climate Investigations Center in 2013 and ClimateFiles.com in 2016. Davies was the architect of the Greenpeace web project ExxonSecrets, launched in 2004, which helped expose the oil giant‘s funding of organizations and individuals who work to discredit the validity of climate science and delay climate policy action. Davies’ team published the 2010 report Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine. More recently, Davies has appeared in the 2022 Peabody award-winning PBS Frontline series, The Power of Big Oil, and Paramount+ series Black Gold.