High Commissioner Gabrielle Rush

Ms Rush took up the role of New Zealand High Commissioner to Singapore in January 2023.

Gabrielle has worked on international law and foreign and trade policy issues in the public and private sector since 1994. Prior to her current role, she led the Consular Division of the New Zealand’s Foreign Ministry from 2020–2022. She served as Acting Divisional Manager of the Ministry’s Legal Division in 2019 and has previously led both the General International and Trade Law units. She has also served as Deputy Director of the Ministry’s Americas Division and worked on United Nations, Commonwealth and human rights issues.

Ms Rush’s diplomatic postings have included a term as New Zealand Consul-General to Hong Kong and Macao from 2014 to 2017, Political Counsellor at the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing, 2013-14 and a posting to the New Zealand High Commission in London in the 1990s.

Outside of government Ms Rush was Associate Director of the New Zealand International Business Forum and the New Zealand United States Council from 2007 to 2011 and in 2012 helped establish the New Zealand China Council. She began her career as a Crown Prosecutor and has also worked in the law faculty of the University of Hong Kong.

Ms Rush holds a Master of Laws degree in Public International Law from the London School of Economics. She has two university-age children and is accompanied in Singapore by her partner, Clifford Hart.