Seamus Renaud (b. 1985) is an Irish-French journalist and narrative nonfiction writer based in Dublin. Raised between Galway and Nantes, he studied history at Trinity College Dublin and completed an M.S. at Columbia Journalism School. His reporting for The Irish Times, The Guardian, and ProPublica has examined healthcare procurement, philanthro-capitalism, and data governance across Ireland, Estonia, and Brazil. He has received the European Press Prize for Investigative Reporting (2020) and the SOF Investigative Journalism Fellowship at Columbia (2022).
Renaud is the author of The Quiet Docket (2017) and Paper Hospitals (2021), and co-produced the RTÉ podcast Ledger Lines. He teaches longform narrative at University College Dublin and serves on the advisory board of the Centre for Critical Data Studies.
