Paul McNally

Founder, Develop AI, South Africa

Paul McNally is the Found of Develop AI. Previously he was the Founder and CEO of Alibi Investigations, an investigative unit and training centre that mentors journalists to produce investigative podcasts. He is the Co-Founder and a board member of Volume, a podcasting company that specialises in award-winning, socially minded audio for clients. In 2015 he created Citizen Justice Network, a project based at Wits University that trains community paralegals in South Africa and Kenya to be radio journalists. He has 16 awards, was a Visiting Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2016 and is the author of a non-fiction book that exposed the corrupt relationship between the police and drug syndicates in Johannesburg.