Timothy Large is head of independent media programmes at the International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna. He is an award-winning journalist, editor and media development specialist who runs the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) programme. Every year, IJ4EU provides more than €1 million in grant funding to cross-border investigative teams in Europe, along with mentoring, training, legal assistance and other forms of support.

Before joining IPI in 2020, Timothy founded the Reporting Democracy cross-border journalism platform covering central and southeast Europe. He was also editor of cross-border projects at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, where he ran the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence programme.

Prior to that, he was director of Reuters media development programmes, overseeing independent news services in Egypt, Zimbabwe and Myanmar; editor-in-chief of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, managing a global team of Reuters journalists dedicated to covering under-reported subjects; editor of the Reuters AlertNet global humanitarian news service; and a Reuters correspondent in Tokyo.

Born in the United States, raised in Australia, naturalised in Britain, a long-time resident of Japan and now based in Austria, he considers himself a global citizen.