writer//climate change specialist

Harriet has 14 years of experience in international affairs and the NGO sector, consulting to organisations including WHO, Oxfam, Doctors of the World, the Gates Foundation, and UN Environment on everything from refugees to renewable energy. Most recently, she was Creative Lead at UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Agency.

 

Her writing focuses on themes informed by her career in the world of diplomacy. She worked on Years of Living Dangerously, James Cameron’s Emmy-winning series about climate change, and her comedy feature about climate activists is currently in development with the state film agency in Australia. She has been published in The Guardian, The Australian, The Diplomat, Island Magazine and Best Australian Essays.

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Harriet holds a Masters in Investigative Journalism from Columbia University and studied International Security and Intelligence at Cambridge University under former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, where she researched the influence of the intelligence community on climate policy. As an undergrad, she studied climate change and international relations at the Australian National University and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.​ She comes from the south coast of Western Australia.