Stefano Liberti is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. He is a contributor to many European magazines, such as Internazionale, Le monde diplomatique, El Pais, Al Jazeera english. His book “Land grabbing. Journeys into the new colonialism” (2011), has been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Korean. His latest book “Tropico Mediterraneo” (“Mediterranean Tropic”) has been described by author Amitav Ghosh as a “thought-provoking and immersive expedition across the troubled waters of the Mediterranean”.

As a filmmaker, he directed many movies, both for the television and for the cinema. Among them, his documentary “Soyalism” (2018), a global investigative journey through the pork supply chain and the related soybean monocultures, has been awarded many prizes and broadcast by dozen of tv channels across the world.

During 2025, he was part of the Bertha challenge cohort of investigative journalists to investigate the agriculture crisis in the Po Valley, in Northern Italy.