Gabrielle Beran (she/her)

Gabrielle holds an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics, LLB/BA from Victoria University of Wellington, is a PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner, and has a certificate on Feminist Facilitation Pedagogies from Cynara.

Gabrielle is proud to have worked globally in many different places and contexts: with governments, community groups, businesses, and volunteers. This includes co-leading a small pro-bono legal charity where the highlights included working with Maasai communities in Kenya on land rights, meeting on global extractives tax issues at the UN in Geneva, and supporting journalistic freedom. She has worked with electoral management bodies in the Caribbean and Pacific and on inclusive infrastructure in Southeast Asia for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She is now based in London.

At CPI she is passionate about the work on systemic climate action, particularly climate financing, and the potential for inclusive social imagination practices to change community-government relationships and create resilient, sustainable, equitable futures. 

In her leisure time, Gabrielle enjoys hiking, being in the ocean, listening to podcasts, and spending time with friends and whānau (family).

Some of Gabrielle’s work includes:

• How to tax for gender equality
• Negotiating a Royalty Pricing Agreement: Lessons from Liberia