Megan Davis

Anti-corruption campaigner Megan Davis talks about her experience of being a whistle blower in the financial sector, her work as an associate at Spotlight on Corruption and how it led to her writing a novel, Bay of Thieves.

Davis was working as a lawyer when she refused to participate in a high-value deal that she believed was pushing into fraud despite lucrative offers from her employer. She found herself escorted from the building and on the end of a campaign of legal harassment from her former employer. She eventually won a settlement and the original deal collapsed due to the adverse publicity. Davis is now an associate at Spotlight on Corruption, an organisation that monitors corruption in the UK and elsewhere.

Her first novel, The Messenger, won the Bridport Prize for a First Novel and the Lucy Cavendish Prize. Her second, Bay of Thieves, set in the south of France, is about two women, Vanessa and Kate, who help the rich get richer by hiding their money. They find themselves exposed to greed, the law and their increasingly dangerous clients when their boss decides to take things too far with a lucrative but risky deal.

This event is part of a series on the uncovering of public scandals and on campaigns against injustice.