Chris Arsenault is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience reporting from more than a dozen countries. He started his career as a freelancer in Halifax and Vancouver and then moved to Qatar as a staff reporter with Al Jazeera, followed by several years at Thomson Reuters in Rome, Toronto and Rio de Janeiro. His coverage areas include resource conflicts, large land deals, foreign policy, financialization and climate politics. He has won the Gold Prize at the UN Correspondents Awards (2015), Best National Feature from Canada’s Radio Television Digital News Association (2022) and the Kevin Tester Award for Marine Journalism (2023), among others. He holds an MA in History from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Journalism from the University of Sunderland in Newcastle, England.