Former corporate and in-house lawyer, FBI informant, key witness in Brazil’s notorious Carwash corruption mega-scandal, victim of a spurious Interpol Red Notice, and recipient of the 2021 Blueprint Prize for Whistleblowing: Jonathan Taylor has had an eventful 13 years since he first helped unearth evidence of multi-million-dollar corruption at his former employer, the Dutch listed multinational SBM Offshore, in 2012.

Assisting seven national prosecutors and regulators, Jonathan was responsible for SBM having to pay over US$ 840 million in fines and settlements and multiple imprisonments. He was also subject to a debate in the UK's House of Commons and House of Lords during COVID, which led to a U-turn in the Government's policy, to respecting his whistleblower status.

Jonathan is an engaging public speaker who offers a unique insight into corporate fraud, interfacing with prosecutors (including the FBI, SEC, SFO, Openbaar Ministrie and the Brazilian, French and Swiss), how not to manage a crisis, cross-border investigations, and the life changing risks that whistleblowers face when they dare expose the corporate and political elite. He is cited as the cause for the entire board of Petrobras to resign in 2015 and was a major contributor to the downfall of the Brazilian President and former Petrobras Chair, Dilma Rousseff.

With a degree in law and his professional qualifications obtained, Jonathan embarked on a career with the leading international law firm, Dentons, with stints in Cairo, Muscat and London, including a secondment to Shell. In 2003, he joined the oil services company SBM at their head office in Monaco and rose to be the company’s number two in-house lawyer. What followed caused Jonathan to be at the centre of an unparalleled whistleblowing epic as his erstwhile employer sought out revenge.