Nicholas Stein is an award-winning investigative journalist. His articles for Fortune, where he worked as a staff writer from 1999 to 2005, ranged from Russian organized insurance fraud (”Inside Operation Boris“) to the rise of indentured servitude in Asian factories (”No Way Out“) to the FDA’s war on raw milk cheese (”Would You Like Cheese with That“). He has also written about white collar crime and other economic, political, and social issues for The Globe and Mail, Men’s Vogue, Best Life, Parade, Toronto Life, Foreign Policy, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Stein’s reporting for CBC’s flagship evening news program, The National, prompted the federal government to reinstate new warning labels on cigarette packages, and led Ontario’s Attorney General to launch an investigation into why the Crown prosecutor withdrew charges against a man accused of orchestrating a $27 million Ponzi scheme. As a result, the Crown brought new charges against the man.

Stein is the recipient of numerous journalism awards. In 2011, he won a CAJ award, Canada’s highest investigative journalism honour, and a Canadian Medical Association Award, for the tobacco story. His Ponzi scheme story was also a finalist for the CAJ award. His CBC expose of a negligent nurse was a finalist for a Gemini award (Canada’s Emmy’s). And his profile of the “Chinese Bernie Madoff” for Toronto Life was nominated for a National Magazine award.

Stein has also received three Business Journalist of the Year awards — Europe’s most prestigious business journalism prize—from the World Leadership Forum in London: one for “Boris”; one for “Crisis in a Coffee Cup,” a detailed examination of the global coffee crisis and its impact on farmers in Latin America and Vietnam; and one for ” The De Beers Story: A New Cut on an Old Monopoly“, a profile of the diamond industry giant. Stein’s investigative feature on the decline and fall of banana behemoth Chiquita Brands, “Yes, We Have No Profits,” was anthologized in the 2003 edition of the Best Business Stories of the Year.

Stein has taught classes at New York University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and holds a BA in English from McGill University and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia.