
Gabriel Elefteriu
Director of Research and Strategy and Head of Space Policy
Gabriel Elefteriu is Director of Research and Strategy at Policy Exchange. He also heads the organisation’s Space Policy Unit – the first of its kind in the UK – which he helped establish in April 2019. His background expertise is in space affairs, foreign policy and defence strategy, with a particular interest in Net Assessment. In his previous role at Policy Exchange Gabriel was Senior Defence Fellow within the “Britain in the World” project led by Dr John Bew. 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.

Related Posts & Publications


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 Acting...
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...Support Us
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