JAX JACOBSEN
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Jax Jacobsen is an award-winning journalist, analyst, and speaker.
She spent the years between ages 20 and 40 moving countries, and often without a proper work visa. Despite these challenges, she’s been published in American, British, Canadian, and French media, with her work appearing in Reuters, CNN, VICE, Forbes, The New Statesman, and many mining-focused publications, among others.
Across the world, she has covered climate change parliamentary debates in the UK, conflicts over fisheries management between the EU and the UK; growing anti-Semitism in France; the fire at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral; how French businesses were impacted by Covid-19, the French government’s policy changes to prevent substantial losses in the French economy and how it impacted M&A activity; new technologies in the mining sector to help the industry adjust to climate change and water restrictions; and how First Nations communities in Canada are becoming more adept at contesting mining-community agreements (impact benefit agreements).
She has interviewed hundreds of CEOs in the mining, energy, technology, and manufacturing industries, as well as government ministers from 12 countries.
When not working, she is an environmental activist in Montreal, lobbying municipal, provincial, and federal governments to lower emissions, expand active transport options, and make several economic sectors (construction, mining) more sustainable. She has led several responses for environmental organisation For Our Kids to city-wide consultations on construction and transport.
She serves on the board for community organisation Table de Quartier d’Outremont, and is also a member of local community group Comité des Ruelles.
Jax earned a Master of Arts at City University of London (UK) in International Journalism, and a Master of Arts in Political Science at McGill University. She earned a BA in Political Science at Marist College, graduating first in her department and studying at the London School of Economics as a Hansard Scholar.
Jax divides her time between Montreal and the UK.
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