Sophia Gaston is a nonresident senior fellow in Strategic Foresight at GMF, where she specializes in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security theaters. Her research focuses on strengthening the resilience and competitiveness of advanced liberal democracies in a turbulent geopolitical era, with a particular focus on British strategic advantage.
Gaston advises the British government as an external challenge partner and policy expert, and trains civil servants on geopolitical capabilities. She is a senior research fellow in the Centre for Statecraft and National Security in the Department of War Studies at King's College London and a senior advisor to the Defense and National Security Practice at the Asia Group in Washington, DC. In addition, she holds affiliations as a senior fellow in the Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford, an expert associate at the National Security College at the Australian National University in Canberra, and an academic fellow at the European Policy Centre in Brussels.
Gaston is a regular media commentator for national and global publications and broadcast television, and frequently presents on her research at international conferences. She also advises the UK government and private-sector organizations on geopolitical risk, strategic forecasting, and policy development.