Jesse Chase-Lubitz is a journalist based in Brussels. She currently writes full time for Devex, where she covers climate change and multilateral development banks. She was previously awarded a Pulitzer grant to write an immersive feature on land reclamation in the Maldives for Nature Magazine, published in April, 2024. She also launched Nature Briefing: Anthropocene, a weekly newsletter about the footprint of humans on Earth. Jesse writes regularly for Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Heatmap News, GreenBiz, The American Prospect, Yahoo News, Skift, and others.
Two years ago, she completed an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics, where she conducted original research into Dutch sea-level rise adaptation architecture within the Netherlands and Indonesia. She also worked for the Department of Geography and the Environment at LSE, assisting with research on a project called Power and Equity in the Production of Climate Knowledge. Though no longer active, she launched a weekly newsletter on climate change adaptation infrastructure called Edifice.
In 2019, she worked at The Japan Times in Tokyo as a Henry Luce Scholar, where she wrote on immigration and climate change policies. She worked a short stint at Inside World Trade, where she covered the nexus of climate and trade policy. Prior to that, she reported on agriculture and trade for Politico, and researched corruption and human smuggling networks in the Balkans for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her career began at Foreign Policy as an American Society of Magazine Editors awardee.
Jesse received her MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation with distinction from the London School of Economics; and she earned her B.A. as a double major in evolutionary biology and history from Columbia University, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
Reach out at jesse.chaselubitz@gmail.com