Full Name Ragnhild Rostad Education Marketing and design Other names Rags Occupation Philanthropist | Ethnicity Norwegian Name Ragnhild Jacobsson Citizenship Swedish | |
Born 15 July 1966 Skjervoy. Norway Residence Hovas, Gothenburg, Sweden | ||
Ragnhild Jacobsson (born 15 July 1966) in Tromsø, Norway, is an entrepreneur, artist, designer, philanthropist and conservationist.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s she was known for her career in the music industry, where she was working as a song and music composer as well as a singer. Her career was however interrupted due to cancer, but after recovering she became the head designer and co-ordinator for a number of well-known brands on the Swedish market.
Since early 2000 she has been dedicated, together with her husband Lars Jacobsson, to support animal projects around the world. Through the purchase of Volunteer Travels Ltd. 2008 and founding The Perfect World Foundation 2010, it fast grew to more than 80 humanitarian, wildlife and environmental projects in 23 countries.
In 2014 she, together with her husband Lars and The Perfect World Foundation, arranged the largest wildlife gala and conference in Scandinavia ever: “Save The Rhino 2014”. The decision to hold the gala was taken during a dinner with Mark Shand and Mary Powys in London, December 2013. Jacobsson and her husband decided that Mark Shand would be the gala evening's guest of honour and be awarded the "Conservationist of the year 2014" award, and receive "The Fragile Rhino".
Ragnhild and her husband is as well working close together with, as ambassadors, with the London-based organisation Elephant Family to save the asian elephants.
On Sunday, 7 June 2015 at a private event in Stockholm, Ragnhild and Lars in behalf of The Perfect World Foundation honored Jane Goodall with the "The Fragile Rhino" prize along with naming her conservationist of the year for 2015.