Christine Gallagher is a Clarendon Scholar with the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a former executive producer with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney where she was awarded the Hedley Bull Prize in International Politics, Jackson Prize for Study in Government, Walter Reid Memorial Prize, University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize, the GS Caird Scholarship in Government, and the University Medal for International and Global Studies.