Author Profile: Leonie Joubert

Leonie Joubert is a science writer and journalist, science communications trainer, and public speaker, who has 17 years’ experience in writing about the fields of climate change, energy policy issues, food security, invasive alien species, and environmental resource economics. She has published six books, book chapter contributions, and a range of journalism in this time. She works across a wide range of styles, including long-form journalism, hard news, feature and opinion-style journalism, book writing, and, more recently, podcasting. On the back of her experience as a content specialist and science writer, Leonie also works extensively in the field of science communications training, providing communications support to journalists, academics, scientists, and civil society organizations in science writing and journalistic technique. These processes involve designing, organizing and facilitating training workshops, and conducting one-on-one writing mentoring. This has involved working with journalists in South Africa and abroad in order to skill them up in the area of climate change reporting.