Ninth Annual Cyber Security Summit

Gordon Corera is the BBC’s Security Correspondent. He covers terrorism, cybersecurity, spying and other related issues in the UK and around the world. Before taking on the role in 2004 he worked for the Today programme on Radio 4 as a foreign reporter. He joined the BBC in 1997 and since then has presented documentaries and written a number of books relating to espionage and security including ‘Intercept-The Secret History of Computers and Spies’

Professor Paul Cornish was educated at the University of St Andrews, the London School of Economics, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the University of Cambridge. He served in the British Army and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and has worked in UK research institutes and universities: Chatham House; the UK Defence Academy; the Centre for Defence Studies (King’s College London); the RAND Corporation (Europe); and the Universities of Cambridge, Bath and Exeter. His work covers international security futures, national strategy, cyber security, arms control, the ethics of conflict, and civil-military relations. He is Chief Strategist at Cityforum Public Policy Analysis Ltd, Associate Director of Oxford University’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, and Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University’s National Security College (2017-2018). He has participated in UK-China Track 1.5 discussions on cyber security since 2013 and advises an OSCE project on confidence-building measures in cyberspace. Cornish’s most recent book is 2020: World of War, published by Hodder & Stoughton in July 2017. He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2018 and his next book will be a reassessment of European geopolitics.

Mary Dejevsky is a leading British commentator on international affairs in general and Russia in particular. She writes a weekly column for The Independent of London and contributes regularly to The Guardian and many other UK and international publications. After graduating from Oxford University in Russian and German, she joined the BBC World Service. She was Moscow correspondent for The Times during the collapse of the Soviet Union, before moving to The Independent as comment editor, then correspondent in Paris and Washington. She is a member of the Valdai Group, invited since 2004 to meet Russian leaders each autumn, a past honorary research fellow at the University of Buckingham and sits on the advisory board of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London.

Dominic is a barrister and has been the MP for Beaconsfield since 1997. He was the Shadow Attorney General from 2003-09, Shadow Home Secretary from 2008-09 and Shadow Justice Secretary from 2009-10.

Under the Coalition Government Dominic was the Attorney General for England and Wales and the Advocate General for Northern Ireland until July 2014.

Dominic was educated at Westminster School and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied Modern History. Then he studied Law. He was called to the Bar in 1980 and was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 2008. He is a bencher of his Inn of Court, the Middle Temple.
During the 1980s, Dominic served as a local councillor in Fulham. He was Chairman of the Research Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers between 1992 and 1997.

Dominic was elected Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee in September 2015. He has been a Member of the Standards and Privileges Committee and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Society of Conservative Lawyers from 2015 to 2017. He is the President of the Franco-British Society and Vice-Chairman of the Franco-British Council. He is Honorary Recorder of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, a member of the Council of Management of Ditchley Park and a Trustee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.

Dominic is bilingual in French. Married to Caroline, a practising barrister. They have two adult sons, James and Hugo.

Responsible for reviewing the Terrorism Acts and associated legislation, on which he is to report annually to Parliament. This responsibility extends throughout the United Kingdom, and is a significant but part-time position, of which the independence is underlined by the fact that there is no contract of employment, nor is the role pensionable. Instead, the Independent Reviewer remains a self-employed QC and barrister.

In addition, current Head of Chambers at 18 Red Lion Court; Leader of the South-Eastern Circuit of the Bar 2014 – December 2016. Chairman of the Kalisher Trust. Bencher of Middle Temple. Former Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association. Called 1987, appointed Recorder 2004, Queen's Counsel 2008. Former Chairman of Trustees and current Patron of London children's charity Scene & Heard. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Nigel Inkster CMG is Senior Advisor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies having previously held the title of Director for Future Conflict and Cyber Security. He has researched, written and broadcast on transnational terrorism, transnational organised crime, insurgency, intelligence and security and cyber security. He has also engaged in para-diplomatic activities including leading for the UK on a Sino-UK Track 1.5 Cybersecurity Dialogue and is a Commissioner on the Global Commission for the Stability of Cyberspace. Publications include China's Cyber Power and part authorship of an IISS Strategic Dossier on The Evolution of the Cyber Domain. Prior to joining IISS he completed a full career in the Secret Intelligence Service retiring in 2006 with the position of Assistant Chief and Director of Operations and Intelligence. Languages include Chinese and Spanish. He lives in London.

Over a period of 20 years in the defence, security and IT sectors, Mark has shaped and delivered large and small engineering change programmes in areas as diverse as underwater technology, major IT transformation programmes, and cyber security services. He is passionate about ensuring that the best technology is both brought to and developed in the UK; believing that the UK’s skills agenda is the route to the continued growth of the vibrant UK digital economy. Mark leads Raytheon UK’s commercial cyber security services team who develop top talent to offer innovative new services to clients whose information security is at the heart of their business.

Sebastian Madden is PGI’s Chief Corporate Development Officer. He is a former UK senior civil servant with 21 years’ experience of national cyber security issues. He has led PGI’s international cyber capability building projects since 2013. His experience includes developing national cyber security strategies, running training and development programmes, creating peer to peer learning networks, and designing and delivering national cyber security exercises.

Before joining PGI, Sebastian worked as a strategy consultant specialising in developing government cyber and national security capability. He started his career as a civil servant, where his roles included Programme Director for the establishment of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, and Principal Private Secretary to the Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator.

Ciaran Martin was announced in his new role as CEO of the NCSC on 15 March 2016. He moved into that role from his position as GCHQ's Director General for Cyber Security, a role he had held since February 2014. As CEO NCSC, Ciaran leads the new public-facing London centre whose purpose is to bring together the UK’s cyber expertise to make the UK the safest place to live and do business online.

Since he joined GCHQ, Ciaran has led the transformation of GCHQ’s security mission into an active and supportive role for Government departments and critical national infrastructure and has worked to make GCHQ’s technical expertise and advice more widely available.

Until April 2016 he was also the GCHQ Board member responsible for GCHQ’s strategy for managing information risk and has led on policy and communications for the Department.
Prior to his role at GCHQ, Ciaran spent eight years in the Cabinet Office as Constitution Director, Director of Security and Intelligence and Principal Private Secretary to the Cabinet Secretary. Ciaran has also held a variety of policy roles at HM Treasury and spent three years in the National Audit Office. Ciaran graduated from Hertford College, Oxford in 1996 with a first in history.

Stuart Murdoch is Founder and CEO of Surevine, specialists in smart and secure collaboration technology for National, Homeland and Cyber Security. Surevine’s Threatvine powers national cyber-security sharing globally, keeping nations one step ahead of the cyber threat. Stuart is a Chartered Engineer with a BSc in Computer Science from Royal Holloway, home of the Information Security Group, and an advanced MSc in Computing from Imperial College, London. He is a professional member of the BCS (British Computer Society) and a member of the IoD (Institute of Directors).

Onora O’Neill combines writing on political philosophy and ethics with a range of public activities. She comes from Northern Ireland and has worked mainly in Britain and the US. She was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge from 1992-2006 and Hon Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. She was President of the British Academy from 2005-9, chaired the Nuffield Foundation from 1998-2010, and has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2000 (Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve). She chaired the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission from 2012-16, and is currently on the boards of the Medical Research Council and the Banking Standards Review. She lectures and writes on justice and ethics, and in particular on the work of Immanuel Kant. Recent publications also address questions about accountability and trust, justice and borders, the future of universities, the quality of legislation and the ethics of communication.

Conrad Prince is the UK Cyber Security Ambassador, based in UK’s Department for International Trade. In this role he works with overseas governments on the development of cybersecurity strategy, helping to identify the required cyber security capability as well as advising on skills and training. He is also the UK’s senior advocate for the government’s agenda to develop a strong and innovative cybersecurity sector. He has had a 25-year career in GCHQ, holding various leadership roles. In 2015 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

Renate has been the Chief Executive of Big Brother Watch since November 2014.
Prior to joining the organisation, she was Chief of Staff to Rt Hon David Davis MP with whom she worked for five years, predominantly on his civil liberties campaigns.

Before working in Parliament, Renate made television documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Sky and other international broadcasters.

Renate has a particular interest in connected technologies and what impact digital citizenry has on society.