Advisory Board
The SPRITE+ Advisory Board provides advice to the SPRITE+ Director and Management Team on the NetworkPlus’s strategic direction and activities. Specifically, the Board:
- Review SPRITE+ activities in the context of the policy and practice landscape
- Suggest ways of extending and developing the network
- Promote SPRITE+ within stakeholder communities
- Provide advice on the strategic direction of SPRITE+
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.
Steph Williams is a Senior Portfolio Manager in the UKRI EPSRC Digital Security and Resilience theme. The theme exists to put a spotlight on digital technologies relevant to the security, defence and resilience of the UK, funding research which will aim to create a more secure and resilient digital society, that is robust and prepared to withstand shocks and challenges in an increasingly interconnected digital world. Steph leads work in the areas of Future Internet, Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security.
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 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 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 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. He is an Honorary Professor at Lancaster University. He 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 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.
Pete is Assistant Commissioner at the City of London Police, NPCC Coordinator for Cyber and Economic Crime. Pete started his career at CoLP, and went on to specialise in cyber and economic crime. He later was seconded into the Metropolitan Police Service as the Head of Uniformed Operations at the London Borough of Newham. In 2017 Pete returned to the CoLP as Detective Chief Superintendent, Head of Crime and Counter Terrorism, and then went on to lead the CoLP’s Economic Crime Directorate that acts as the national lead force for fraud on behalf of UK policing. In 2018 Pete won the International Association of Chief’s of Police prestigious “40 under 40” award for his work in this field. Pete is currently the national policing lead for Special Branch reform, Intellectual Property Crime, and Controlled Drugs Liaison Officers.
Peter is a solicitor and Managing Director at Digital Law. Peter 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. He is also 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 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).
