Jamie MacColl is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. His current research focuses on ransomware and other financially motivated cybercrimes, the UK’s national cyber strategy, and risk management approaches to 'high-risk' ICT vendors. He is also currently a Senior Research Associate at Virtual Routes, a European think tank, a Project Fellow at the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security, and a member of the technical committee Cyber Monitoring Centre. Jamie also represents RUSI at the Counter Ransomware Initiative's private sector advisory panel. He holds an MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge and BA in War Studies from King’s College London.