ABOUT ME
Gabriel De Roche (Gabe) is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, San Diego. His focus is comparative politics with an interest in immigration policy-making.
About Me
Gabriel De Roche (Gabe) is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, San Diego. At UCSD, he studies the comparative politics of immigration, with a particular focus on the migration impacts of climate change.
From 2021-2024, his research at UCSD will be funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and from 2022-2024 by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Prior to pursuing his PhD, he lived in Toronto, Canada, where he worked as a consultant in public affairs and corporate communication and served for more than six years as a senior advisor to Cabinet Ministers in the government of Ontario. In this role, he advised senior leaders in Canada’s largest sub-national government and led files including investment attraction and international trade at the Ministry of Economic Development, behaviour-change marketing at the Ministry of Health, and oversaw numerous public opinion research and consultation projects.
His writing has appeared in national news media in both the United States and Canada (including the Washington Post, and Macleans Magazine) and he appeared as a weekly radio panelist in Toronto.
He is passionate about the arts (especially theatre and music), and has served on the board of directors of a contemporary music company and arts philanthropy organization in Toronto.
Gabe is a graduate of Trinity College in the University of Toronto with a BA (Hons.) in International Relations.
He loves to travel (especially for good food and wine), and occasionally blogs about it here.