Pauline Bax, who worked for Bloomberg News in Africa until earlier this year, has joined the International Crisis Group in Africa as a senior editor and policy advisor.
She assists in delivering the Africa Program’s publications and supporting experts in their research, analysis and development of policy ideas.
Bax spent almost ten years as West Africa correspondent for the Dutch newspaper NRC/Handelsblad and contributed radio, TV and print reports to various international media, including the BBC, RFI and The Guardian.
She subsequently moved from Ivory Coast to Ghana to report for Bloomberg News. In recent years, she served as Africa government editor for Bloomberg, steering coverage for the agency’s network of local correspondents across sub-Saharan Africa.
