Gabriel Elefteriu

Senior Research Fellow, Defence and Border Security

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Gabriel Elefteriu is Senior Defence Fellow, also covering border security. In his previous role at Policy Exchange he was National Security Research Fellow within the “Britain in the World” project. Before joining Policy Exchange in 2014, he was Senior Defence Analyst and Consultant with a defence market intelligence company working with global defence and homeland security industry clients, including A&D primes. His earlier experience includes a number of business and security intelligence roles in the City. Gabriel holds a BA in War Studies (1st class) and an MA in Intelligence and International Security (distinction) from King’s College London, where his main research focus was on space security and strategy. He is also an Associate of King’s College.

US House of Representatives reaffirms bipartisan commitment to NATO’s Article 5: Could the UK Parliament follow suit?

by Gabriel Elefteriu | Jul 9, 2017

The boring reality of international diplomacy is that much of the heavy lifting takes away from high-level summits, podiums and presidential addresses in front of carefully assembled audiences in foreign lands. Of course, the amateur body language analysts were out in...

NATO has an EU problem as well as a Trump problem: What role can Britain play in helping mend the alliance?

by Gabriel Elefteriu | Mar 28, 2017

Read Article This article was featured in the Telegraph Sixty years after the Treaty of Rome was signed on 25 March 1957, leaders of the EU27 gathered in the same place, Capitoline Hill, to add their names to a statement of unity. Theresa May was not present at the...

General McMaster knows where the West went wrong, and can help President Trump make it right

by Gabriel Elefteriu | Feb 23, 2017

Read Article This article was also featured in The Telegraph. It has become fashionable in some quarters to see President Trump’s election as somehow constituting a terminal blow to the Western-led liberal international order. The problem with this is that it...

It is High Time for a Fundamental Discussion on British Grand Strategy

by Gabriel Elefteriu | Dec 19, 2016

On 7 December, the UK Government published, without great fanfare, its first Annual Report on the 2015 National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence & Security Review (SDSR). A summary of the Report was provided a week later, on 15 December, by Britain’s...

Walter Russell Mead, leading American strategist, speaks at Policy Exchange immediately after the US election

by Gabriel Elefteriu | Nov 13, 2016

On November 10th, the very next day after the US election result, the Britain in the World project hosted Professor Walter Russell Mead, one of America’s leading strategic thinkers, for a briefing on US foreign policy under President Trump. Professor Mead is a...