{"id":5540,"date":"2021-11-26T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myspeaker.se\/profiles\/eliot-higgins\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:06:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:06:41","slug":"eliot-higgins","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/myspeaker.se\/en\/international-speakers\/eliot-higgins\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliot Higgins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"text-block_f24fb9fcb7a0bb5e1f5075dff80b6bf8\" class=\"block-text block-text--columns-one lg:my-20 my-10\">\n      <div class=\"block-text__body\">\n      <p>Starting as a blogger and entirely self-taught, Higgins&#8217; work has now opened up new ways to investigate a wide range of topics, with Higgins&#8217; own investigative work covering topics such at the downing of Malaysian Airlines 17 over Ukraine in July 17, chemical weapon use in Syria and the application of these new investigation techniques to the work of organisations like the International Criminal Court, where Higgins&#8217; is part of the Technology Advisory Board.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021 Eliot Higgins released &#8220;We Are Bellingcat&#8221;, telling the story of the investigations that made his name and the name of Bellingcat, including the poisonings of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury and Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny by Russian intelligence services. 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