Authors
Jesse Chase-Lubitz is a freelance climate journalist based in London. She writes for Bloomberg, Yahoo News, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect and others. She recently 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 is currently building off that work in the Department of Geography and the Environment at LSE, where she is assisting with research on a project called Power and Equity in the Production of Climate Knowledge.
In 2019, she worked for a year at The Japan Times in Tokyo as a Henry Luce Scholar, where she wrote on immigration and climate change policies in Japan. 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.
You can read Jesse’s published work here.
Roman Shemakov is a writer and legal scholar based in Beijing, China. His writing has appeared in the Council on Foreign Relations, the Columbia Journal of History, Harvard Classics Journal, Urban Tech News, the American Chamber of Commerce, and others.
His consulting and research work focuses on the intersection of jurisprudence, cities, technology, and ecology.
After studying urban theory and international law at Yale-NUS in Singapore, he spent a year working in Taiwan as a Henry Luce Scholar, advising on smart city and digital governance regulation. Afterwards, he was a Visiting Scholar at Zhejiang University — funded by the Rockefeller & Carnegie Foundations — investigating emergent planetary sapience of urban management platforms.
He has conducted research with the Strelka Institute, the Arcosanti Foundation, and Earthship Biotecture.
In 2021, he coauthored the Digital Transformation of Property in Greater China: Finance, 5G, AI and Blockchain (World Scientific Publishing).
In 2022, he curated and edited a collection of essays from industry leaders in Asia titled Decarbonizing Asia : Innovation, Investment, and Opportunities (World Scientific Publishing).
Since February 24th, he has been reporting on the war in Ukraine as an editor for Global Voices covering commodity shortages, infrastructure governance, and reconstruction planning.
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