About

Gabriel was born in Edinburgh and grew up in the Scottish Borders. She studied Classics at Durham University, Erasmus at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, and has a diploma in marketing from London Business School. 

Winner of the Hunter Davies Prize for Journalism, Gabriel started working on the news desk at ABC News in London when she was nineteen. She took on a full-time role at ABC News after graduating, and moved from desk assistant to overnight assignment editor and reporter, before moving to Bloomberg TV as an interview producer. By the time she was 25, she was a Broadcast Journalist for the BBC, working as a producer for BBC World News, HARDtalk and World Service Radio.  

After the London Olympics in 2012, Gabriel moved to Santiago de Chile where she became Forbes Travel Correspondent to Santiago and freelanced for international publications, including CNN, Conde Nast Traveller, AFAR, Tatler and the Financial Times. She was also published in Spanish in Chile’s two leading newspapers, El Mercurio and La Tercera.

Gabriel lived in Chile for many years, her children were born in Santiago, and Spanish is their first language. Apart from a spell living in Seville, she is based in the UK, but spends lengthy periods of time in South America each year, especially in Peru where she is Director of the Sol y Luna Foundation educating children born into extreme poverty in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. 

Since childhood, Gabriel has had a need to write. She is currently working on her first novel.