Alvin Ntibinyane founded INK Foundation – a southern African-based nonprofit news outlet. He was formerly a newspaper editor. He earned his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and completed a research fellowship at the University of Oxford in the UK. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Regina in Canada with ‘Great Distinction’. He was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that worked on the Panama Papers.