Breanna Gabbert

Breanna was a Program Coordinator for the ASPI Professional Development Centre team.

Breanna’s research interests include South East Asia and Pacific issues, cyber security and the security of Northern Australia.

She has a double degree in International Relations and Economics from the Australian National University in Canberra. As a recipient of the New Colombo Program mobility grant, she studied Bahasa Indonesian at the Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana, in central Java. She completed DFAT’s Indonesian exchange program in 2016/17, where she interned at the International Relations Department at Universitas Bosowa in South Sulawesi and completed a rural community development program in Bulukumba.

Breanna previously worked as the lead Project Officer at the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, Crawford School of Public Policy’s Chinese Investment in Australia (CHIIA) Database. She was a previous intern with ASPI, British Aerospace Systems Australia (BAE) and the Australian Institute of International Affairs.