M.P.P. in international and global affairs, Harvard University; B.A. in international studies, Boston College
Gabrielle Tarini is a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her current research focuses on European security and NATO, special operations forces, security cooperation, and humanitarian issues. She is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she received her Master’s in Public Policy. At the Kennedy School, she was a teaching assistant for a former Secretary of Defense, whom she helped to develop and manage a new graduate-level course on leadership in national security. Her graduate thesis, completed for a member of Congress, analyzed the causes and consequences of civilian harm in U.S. security assistance relationships and was awarded the "Best Analysis of an Emerging Crisis" by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In 2018, she was a Harold W. Rosenthal Fellow in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Previously, she was a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, where she conducted research on WMD nonproliferation. She received her BA in International Studies from Boston College.
