Matthew Benns has spent his career as a journalist chasing and exposing some of the biggest conmen and women in the world.

He has worked for newspapers in Fleet Street including The Sun, Today and Daily Mail and in Sydney for The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and The Sun Herald.

He is also the author of a number of books including bestsellers The Men Who Killed Qantas and Fixed, an expose of the seedy underbelly of the horse racing industry in Australia.

His 2011 book, Dirty Money, was number one on the business books bestseller list and described by investigative journalist John Pilger as 'a terrific book the first of its kind in Australia'. He is currently the Editor-at-Large at The Daily Telegraph.