Kirsten Angeles

Kirsten Angeles is an incoming master's student in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her research interests span biosecurity and technology governance. Kirsten has presented at multiple Biological Weapons Convention meetings as a former UN Office for Disarmament Affairs Youth for Biosecurity fellow and Nuclear Threat Initiative Next Generation Biosecurity delegate. She helps run Southeast Asia Biosecurity, a network of early-career biosecurity researchers in Southeast Asia. Previously, she led Project SHIELD PH, a pioneering initiative that mapped the Philippine biosecurity landscape and a national biosecurity research agenda. Her background is rooted in global health and public health research as well as science communication and journalism. She holds a bachelor's degree in Health Sciences from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.