Anastasia Valeeva is a Russian freelance journalist specialized in investigative reporting, data journalism and open data. She has been writing and producing pieces about politics and society for NTV Russia, Esquire Russia, Open Democracy, TV Rain, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Cafebabel and other outlets.

Anastasia has researched the use of open data in investigative data journalism as part of her fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford.

She has taught data journalism at Data Bootcamps in Montenegro and Germany, Data Journalism Summer Institutes in Kyrgyzstan and Albania, at the Higher School of Economics, Russia and is currently a data journalism lecturer at the American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.