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Julian A. Jacobs (born 1969 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a former director of communications and stakeholder relations of the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa.

Jacobs received a B.A. from the University of the Western Cape in 2007, an Honours Degree in 2008 and a Masters degree in 2011- all at the same university in Cape Town, South Africa.

He is the former news editor of the student newspaper at UWC, Student Voice; a former editor at the community newspaper called Cape Docta in Manenberg, South Africa from 1993 to 1997. In the summer (northern hemisphere) of 1995, he was awarded a Nuffield Foundation fellowship where he worked at the award-winning Hampstead&Highgate Express in London. On his return to South Africa, he continued to write and edit the local paper in Manenberg. He freelanced for a few international magazines, news agencies and later joined the Saturday/Sunday Argus.

At the end of 1997, he joined the national Department of Labour in their Cape Town office as its provincial communication officer. At the beginning of 2001, he became the national media and advertising manager for the Department and moved to Pretoria, South Africa. One of his lasting legacies at the Department was the media advertising campaign on domestic and farm workers - which features on television, radio and in newspapers. During this time he worked at the Union Buildings in Pretoria and the South African Parliament in Cape Town representing his Department for high-level communication strategic meetings. Jacobs left working for the government and joined the South African Medical Research Council as its media officer. He became the Division Manager for its Corporate Affairs Department leading the council's internal and external communications from 2003 to 2011 in Cape Town. He has worked with world-class scientists and researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS Vaccines, Malaria, Microbicides, TB, Cancer, Nutrition to name a few.

In September 2011 he joined the Human Sciences Research Council as its Director of Communications and Stakeholder Relations. Under his tutelage, the HSRC ventured into social networking sites to engage with members of the general public, the media, and other scientists. He worked on several high-level conferences such as the Gender Summit Africa and the World Social Sciences Forum 2015

Jacobs is currently busy with this doctorate degree in Journalism and Media Studies. Jacobs has written the history of Manenberg resistance movement of the 1980s as part of his Master's dissertation. He has written many newspaper articles, blogs, scientific journal articles, and reviews.