Maria Pevchikh, born on 15 August 1987 in Zelenograd, is a Russian investigative journalist and chair of the FBK Council since 2023. She graduated from Moscow State University and the London School of Economics. Her investigations, including the film "A Palace for Putin," reveal corruption schemes among the elite and have attracted millions of views.

She shares her work on platforms such as Instagram, where she has 500,000 followers, YouTube (Popular Politics), Telegram, and X, providing investigations and analyses to a broad audience.