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Advisory Board
David Chisnall
Microsoft
Professor Sadie Creese
Sadie is Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, where she teaches operational aspects of cybersecurity including threat detection, risk assessment and security architectures. Elsewhere in Oxford, she is a member of the faculty of the Blavatnik School Executive Public Leaders Programme, teaching cybersecurity topics relevant to senior leaders in public policy from around the world, and is a regular contributor to the leadership programmes and MBA teaching of the Said Business School.
Her current research portfolio includes: threat modelling and detection with particular interest in the insider threat and threat from AI, visual analytics for cybersecurity, risk propagation logics and communication, resilience strategies for business, privacy requirements, vulnerability of distributed ledgers and block-chains, understanding cyber-harm and how it emerges for single organisations, nations and the potential for systemic cyber-risk, and the Cyber Security Capacity Maturity Model for Nations.
She is Principal Investigator on the AXIS sponsored project “Analysing Cyber-Value-at-Risk, Residual Risk and models for Systemic Cyber-Risk” focused on developing a method for predicting potential harms arising from cyber-attacks. She leads the Oxford team’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum’s Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity and Digital Trust Platform, research sponsored by AXIS.
Sadie was also co-Chair of the Lloyds Register Foundation sponsored Foresight review of cyber security for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which was focused on operational cybersecurity technology gaps in future IIoT environments. Sadie is the founding Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC) at the Oxford Martin School, where she continues to serve as a Director conducting research into what constitutes national cybersecurity capacity, working with countries and international organisations around the world. She was the founding Director of Oxford’s Cybersecurity network launched in 2008 and now called CyberSecurity@Oxford, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Cyber Security Centre’s Strategic Advisory Board, and was a Technical Advisor to the Government of Japan (GOJ) and the World Economic Forum joint project on International Data Flow Governance ‘Advancing the Osaka Track’.
Bruce Etherington (Observer)
Bruce is the ESRC Strategic Lead for the Industrial Strategy Challenge Funds.
The team delivers c£30M of research funding linking social sciences research to the needs of businesses.
Prior to joining ESRC, Bruce worked in Welsh universities building links with external organisations to support public engagement, impact, technology transfer and knowledge exchange.
Dr Andrea Kells
Andrea is Director, Research Ecosystem at Arm.
She has responsibility for overseeing Arm’s global portfolio of academic and industrial research collaborations, and the relationships that underpin them.
She also engages with relevant funding agencies and policy-makers in order to promote Arm’s strategic research objectives, and to support academic research in aligned areas.
For many years she has been interested in how academic research can be successfully translated into commercial products, and what the barriers and constraints might be.
Prior to joining Arm, she worked in the University of Cambridge for 10 years, managing large scale industrial collaborations in the biological and physical sciences.
She also spent 5 years with a public sector consultancy, leading international evaluations of Government and agency funding for university-industry partnerships.
Professor Brooke Rogers OBE
Professor Rogers is a Professor of Behavioural Science and Security at King’s College London where she is Deputy Head of Department and Director of Academic Staffing in the Department of War Studies. She is a social psychologist interested in risk communication, public and practitioner attitudes to, perceptions of, and responses to health and security risks and threats.
She has an exceptional track record of delivering over £25million of multi-disciplinary, collaborative research projects exploring psychological and behavioural responses to low likelihood, high-impact events such as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) incidents.
Other projects have focussed on public delivery of first-aid during extreme events, risk communication with potentially vulnerable groups, disaster education in schools, doctor-patient communication, community and organisational resilience, protecting crowded places, pathways into violent radicalisation, insider threat, and more.
She chairs the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment/National Security Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group (BSEG), as well as the Home Office Science Advisory Council (HOSAC). She contributes to the Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and is co-chairing the behavioural science sub-group (SPI-B) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor Rogers also contributes to government, military, and international organisation assurance boards, programme reviews, Blackett reviews, and maintains membership across a range of local, national, and international committees, including the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology (CST).
Pete Scrivener
Pete’s background has always been in technology, having originally worked in UK local government as a Programmer Analyst.
After moving to HSBS James Capel Stockbrokers in the 1990’s he has held a variety of roles including Development Manager, Local Head of IT, Global Head of Production Support and now Director of Technical Risk Assessment in Securities Services, HSBC.
His current responsibilities includes providing and evidencing an effective control environment to protect Client investments, including Cyber Security.
David S. Wall
David PhD is Professor of Criminology in the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds, UK where he conducts interdisciplinary research into CyberCrimes in the Cloud, Ransomware, Policing Cybercrime, and Organised Cybercrime and Cybersecurity.
He has published a wide range of articles and books on these subjects over a 25-year period. He is currently researching the impact of Ransomware and Big Data Crimes upon the cybersecurity threat landscape and is modelling the cybercrime ecosystem for various research projects.
He works with economists, psychologists, lawyers, computer scientists and software engineers on AI and Machine Learning as well as various agencies across Europe and their various practitioner and policy communities.
He has been a member of various Governmental working groups on Cybercrime and more recently with the UNODC Expert Groups on various cybercrime initiatives.