Meet the advisory board
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Professor Lucy Mason
Professor Lucy Mason is a Director at Capgemini Invent leading on emerging technologies and innovation, especially in the defence, space and security sectors. Her interests include the threats and opportunities posed by AI and machine learning, the internet of things, quantum technologies, futures thinking, and the implications of technologies for people and society.
Lucy is passionate about bringing industry, academia, and Government together in multidisciplinary teams to better solve major social challenges. Lucy is a member of the Government’s Regulatory Horizons Council and led their work on the future regulation of space technologies.
She is the founder and former Head of the Government’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) which finds and funds innovation to create novel defence and security capabilities. Lucy is Chair of the Advisory Board for SPRITE+, and is on the Advisory Board for the Common Mission Project and CREST Research. She is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University.
Professor Tom Rodden
Professor Tom Rodden is Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and a Professor of Computing at the University of Nottingham. His research brings together a range of disciplines to tackle the emerging human, social, ethical and technical challenges as computing becomes a ubiquitous feature of our world and we increasingly use personal data and AI technologies.
Prior to joining DCMS Tom was seconded as Deputy CEO of EPSRC where he was responsible for research strategy and acted as the UKRI lead in both AI and e-Infrastructure. Tom is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and the a Fellow of the BCS.
Dr Shilon Bala
Dr Shilon Bala is the Portfolio Manager in the UKRI EPSRC Resilience and Security theme. The theme exists to put a spotlight on critical technologies relevant to the security, defence and resilience of the UK, funding research which will aim to create a more secure and resilient society, that is robust and prepared to withstand shocks and challenges in an increasingly interconnected world.
Shilon leads the work in the areas of Digital Forensics, Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security.
Professor Benoît Dupont
Benoît Dupont is Professor of Criminology at the Université de Montréal, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity and the Philanthropic Research Chair in the Prevention of Cybercrime. He is also one of the co-founders and Scientific Director of the Smart Cybersecurity Network (SERENE-RISC), which brings together government, industry, non-profits and academic partners to facilitate the mobilisation and uptake of evidence-based cybersecurity knowledge.
Benoît's research interests focus on the governance of security and the use of networked initiatives to enhance online safety, as well as the co-evolution of crime and technology, and in particular the social organisation of malicious hackers.
Emily Keaney
Emily Keaney is Director of Regulatory Strategy, Domestic, at the ICO. Emily was previously Director of the UK Regulators’ Network, a vehicle for collaboration between thirteen regulators across the financial, utilities, transport, communications, data, legal and financial sectors.
Before that she was Head of Media Literacy and Children’s Research at Ofcom, the communications regulator, where she managed a large programme of qualitative and quantitative research into the ways in which adults and children use, create and understand media and the implications for policy.
Emily has an extensive career in consumer policy and research, including in previous roles with the Communications Consumer Panel, The Arts Council and the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Dr Michał Król
Dr Michał Król is a lecturer in Cyber Security at City, University of London. He received his PhD in Computer Science at University Grenoble- Alpes (France) and held research fellow positions at UTC Sorbonne University (France), University College London (UK), University of California, Los Angeles (US) and UCLouvain (Belgium). In his research, Dr Król's focuses on distributed systems, Web decentralisation and blockchains.
Nick Coleman
Nick Coleman is the Global Head of Cyber Security Intelligence Services at IBM. Previously he was National Reviewer of Security for the UK Government. He is an appointed advisor to the Executive Director of the EU Cyber Security Agency ENISA serving on the Permanent Stakeholders Group, as well as being an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University.
Nick is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He also holds an MBA with Distinction.
Dr Ola Michalec
Dr Ola Michalec is a social scientist interested in policies and politics of digital innovation and climate change. In her research, she uses qualitative methods, participatory facilitation techniques and theories from Science and Technology Studies.
She joined the University of Bristol in 2019 (Cyber Security Research Group) where she works on cyber security regulations in the critical infrastructure sectors. This is an exciting area, which brings together innovators, engineers, IT experts, lawyers, regulators and sector-specific expertise. Her key regulatory interests are the NIS directive and IoT standards.
Dr Andreas Haggman
Dr Andreas Haggman is the Principal of Privacy, Security and Academic Partnerships at Ofcom, the UK's communication regulator, where he primarily works on online safety. His role involves academic engagement to support and enhance Ofcom's capabilities in a wide range of online safety technology areas.
Prior to joining Ofcom Andreas worked in cyber security policy in the UK government at DCMS and DSIT. Andreas' earlier career has also taken him across video games, defence, and insurance sectors. He holds a PhD in cyber security from Royal Holloway University of London.
Peter Wright
Peter is a solicitor and Managing Director at Digital Law. He has been advising clients on Data Protection for over a decade and created Digital Law in 2014 to provide legal & compliance advice to organisations about their activities in the Digital arena.
Peter is the Chair of the GDPR Working Group of the Law Society of England and Wales. He is also a member of the Law Society Board and a Past Chair of the Technology and Law Committee, as well as being Chair of the Law Society’s Policy and Regulatory Affairs Committee, managing the work of the Law Society’s thirty legal policy and regulatory committees and providing overall strategic direction and vision.
Peter is author of the Law Society Cyber Security Toolkit, a practical compliance guide for law firms, and is co-author of a GDPR practical compliance manual for law firms.
Rem Noormohamed
Rem Noormohamed is a partner in the Technology & Data Law group at Fieldfisher LLP, Industrial Professor at the University of Bristol Law School and past Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship. His advisory expertise and research interests centre on the intersection of law and regulation with 'tech' and data driven innovation, new business models and monetisation of IP rights.
He is a part-time, industry sponsored, PhD Candidate at Bristol Law School - researching the legal, regulatory and engineering design challenges presented by digital autonomous safety critical systems, with particular focus on cybersecurity, privacy and trust.
Rem is a practising solicitor and IT/telecoms consultant engineer, with over 25 years' first hand commercial and industry experience. He sits as a technical expert on ISO/IEC (international), CEN/CENELEC (EU) and BSI (national) standards development committees for artificial intelligence, blockchain/DLT, ICT, IoT/digital twin (chair), digital identity, privacy and cybersecurity; and is an editorial board member of the 'Communications Law Journal' (Bloomsbury Publishing).
Martina Sasse
M. Angela Sasse is a professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany and at University College London, UK. She is a pioneer of usable security research and interdisciplinary security research, and was the Founding Director of the Research Centre on Socio-Technical Security (RISCS) from 2012-2017.
In recent years, her focus has been empirical research on how large organisations manage cybersecurity risks, in particular in relation to human capital. In 2018 she moved to Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where she is a speaker at the Cluster of Excellence CASA, the interdisciplinary graduate school SecHuman, and the BMBF-funded DigiFit project.
Her recent focus is on helping humans develop secure routines for the digital age, and organisational and societal aspects of resilience. She was elected Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (2015) and the German National Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina” (2023).
Richard Kirkham
Richard is a Reader in Civil Engineering at UoM, Deputy Director of the Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research, and member of the senior leadership team in the Manchester Urban Institute.
Richard’s research on government major project delivery has attracted funding from ESRC, the APM, PMI and UKRI; he also provides expert advice to government on aspects of risk management in the context of major projects and supports the Cabinet Office Science and Engineering Network workstream on ‘knowledge transfer’, having successfully completed an ESRC funded secondment into the Cabinet Office in 2016.
Richard is the Principal Investigator of the SALIENT programme - a £4.3m UKRI investment into national security and resilience research - and has previously worked on the UK Government's 'Core National Studies' programme during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is also a member of the SAGE expert list and contributes to Go-Science STEM futures hubs on reliability engineering and systems thinking.