Richard Kerbaj is a BAFTA-winning, twice Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer and multi-award winning print journalist. Kerbaj specialized in investigating crime and national security-related stories during his 20 year career at newspapers in Australia and Britain.
Kerbaj's most recent projects include the bookThe Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network in 2022, andLitvinenko in 2022, a true-crime TV drama centred on the 2006 assassination ofAlexander Litvinenko by Russian agents operating in London.
Born inMelbourne, Australia to parents of Druze origin, Kerbaj's family moved to a village inLebanon in 1980 when he was 2 years old. They became trapped by the country's escalating civil war.[1]
His family returned to Melbourne and lived inToorak where they ran a milk bar. During Kerbaj's final year of high school his English grades improved dramatically with help from tutor and friendBen Sheehan. In March 2001, Kerbaj started a writing course atDeakin University, where he studied under influential Australian author, journalist and photographer Peter Davis.[1] Kerbaj's first newspaper article was an August 2001 profile of host ofBarry Bissell, the host of radio showTake 40 Australia, which was published inThe Age.[1]
Kerbaj initially worked as afreelancer before he started working forThe Australian newspaper in 2005.[1]
In 2006 Kerbaj published an article on SheikhTaj Din al-Hilali which won theJohn Curtin Prize for Journalism and a Young Journalist of the Year award atNews Limited which gave him the opportunity to work at a News Limited publication in London for three months.[1]
In 2018 Kerbaj shared the "Scoop of the Year" award with Tom Harper and Jon Ungoed-Thomas at theBritish Press Awards for their reporting on pornography found on the computer ofDamian Green.[1][2]
In December,[year needed] Kerbaj praised the series' star David Tennant, stating that he had: "Saved our show because it was commissioned a few months before COVID hit. Had David decided not to stay involved, I’m not sure the drama would've been made."[citation needed]
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