Gabe Armstrong-Scott works with Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern on a philanthropy project to advance women’s health, wellbeing, and security globally.
At Harvard, she researches topics related to emerging technologies and radicalization, geopolitics, and public health. Gabe previously served as Senior Advisor for the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, where she briefed top decision-makers on international security issues. Gabe was also Senior Strategy Advisor to the Christchurch Call Foundation (a non-profit with the goal of eliminating terrorist and violent extremist content online), a Graham Allison Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and has held several private sector consulting roles with geopolitical risk and policy advisory organizations, and is an occasional freelance consultant in geopolitics, tech policy, and writing/editing.
Gabe has an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, where she was teaching assistant to former U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and recipient of the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for “future promise of leadership, strength of character, keen mind, balanced judgement and a devotion to the democratic ideal.” She has an undergraduate degree from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and an MPE (Economics) from Victoria University School of Business and Government, where she won the Excellence Prize for top master’s student.