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Plenary 4

Bella is Cyber Director within the Government Security Group in the Cabinet Office and is responsible for delivering the Government Cyber Security Strategy. Bella joined the Cabinet Office team in September 2022 following her role as Senior Security Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) where she established the organisation's central security function and managed significant security risks at a time of fundamental change for the organisation as a result of Brexit. Her career has spanned both the private sector and government, with previous experience including cyber security strategy and digital transformation at the Boston Consulting Group, and cyber security delivery at BAE Systems.

Jen Easterly is the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – a West Point graduate, a proud Mom, a mental health advocate and a puzzle enthusiast.

Before joining CISA, Jen led the firm-wide resilience effort at Morgan Stanley after a lengthy public service career that included serving at the White House twice, helping to stand-up the Army’s first cyber battalion, and more than twenty years of service in intelligence and cyber operations, including tours of duty in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Plenary 3

Claire Fry was appointed Director Functional Integration for the Ministry of Defence Digital Function in February 2021. Her role covers pan Defence providing leadership across the Digital function, including being the Digital Head of Profession.  Her aim is to drive functional impact, working closely with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) community across Defence to ensure cohesion and integration. Amongst other things her key responsibilities include the £4.4bn Portfolio Digital spend, the Digital governance that reports into the Defence Board and is leading the Digital Skills for Defence Programme, working across Defence and industry to develop ground-breaking Digital skills uplift. 

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Plenary 2

Richard is responsible for the long-term evolution of the Arm architecture and has led its development for more than 20 years, beginning with Armv6. He is currently leading development on Armv9 to ensure its specialized processing unlocks new markets and opportunities across the full spectrum of compute.

In his early days at Arm, Richard worked on Arm720T, Arm940T, and Arm1136EJF-S. Prior to Arm, Richard worked for Analog Devices on fixed-function DSP, and at Inmos/ST on the Transputer.

Richard is an Arm fellow, has a BA in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and holds 107 patents in the field of microprocessors.

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Plenary 4

"A highly experienced Cyber Security Director influencing strategy in cyber security within BT, telecoms industry, and across UK government. Responsible for setting security direction across BT and driving security automation in a mission to make security simple and easy to implement and manage. Dave leads the teams responsible for BT’s Security Enterprise Architecture, Secure by Design consultancy, security transformation stories and industry security engagement.
Dave has over 20 years experience in security of leading edge networking and IT technologies and can work effectively with technical and non-technical teams.

Dave is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (FCIIS), a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET), and graduated from Aston University with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in Electronic Systems Engineering.

In addition to his role in BT, Dave is an ambassador for the Global Cyber Alliance and an advisor to StopScamUK."

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Plenary 4

Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover. He has founded and invested in many technology companies including Acorn, ARM, Solexa which was bout by Ilumina, CSR, Graphcore and Photonic.

Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded an honorary KBE in 2015.
 

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Plenary 4

Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, part of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). The Cyber Centre is the single unified source of expert advice, guidance, services and support on cyber security for government, critical infrastructure owners and operations, the private sector and the Canadian public. Sami began his career at CSE in 1992 as a research engineer and over the years has held various management positions and leadership roles at CSE more recently as CSE’s CIO.

Sami is a graduate of Concordia University with a Masters of Applied Science. He also completed a certificate program in Public Sector Leadership. Sami was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and the APEX Award of Excellence for Innovation in 2020.

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Plenary 3

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Paul is the Chairman of Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor consortium. Prior to April 2022 Paul was the Chief Technology Officer of Rolls-Royce plc, responsible for the Group’s technology strategy and balance of engineering and technology investment.  

Before joining Rolls-Royce in 2010, Paul worked in the communications and electronics industries for Philips, Thorn-EMI, Thales and Siemens, then in 2006 joined the Ministry of Defence. Paul was the MoD’s Director General, Science and Technology, responsible for its investments in defence technologies.  

Paul is on several Government advisory committees including an appointment in March 2020 to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

Paul was awarded a CBE in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

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Plenary 4

Ms. Morgan Adamski is the Director of NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center and is responsible for leading complex and groundbreaking initiatives for the agency specifically aimed at gaining insights against nation-state cyber actors and collaborating with the private sector.

She drives the Center’s efforts to build bi-directional analytical relationships with private sector partners providing cybersecurity services to the Defense Industrial Base and National Security Systems as well as overseeing NSA programs aimed at shaping cybersecurity standards and products used in National Security Systems. For more than a decade, Ms. Adamski has been at the forefront of NSA’s Computer Network Defense, Computer Network Exploitation, and Cyber analysis missions.

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Stream B, Session 6

Ben joined Sage Group as EVP Global CISO in 2018. As functional leader for Sage’s global information and cyber security organisation, Ben is accountable for the design and execution of the Group’s cyber security strategy. He has overall responsibility for the security of Sage’s global technology estate and customer-facing products and services.

Ben was appointed Sage’s Chief Risk Officer, January 2021 and now leads the Group’s Risk and Business Integrity functions, alongside his CISO role. Prior to this, Ben spent 16 years in the UK public sector. The majority of his roles in government were in national security; Ben left public service as Deputy Government Chief Security Officer, based in the Cabinet Office. Ben’s remit included cyber security, personnel security, counterterrorism, counterespionage, and investigation of major breaches, including contravention of the Official Secrets Act. Ben worked within the UK’s crisis response apparatus (COBR) including 2017 WannaCry outbreak.

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Stream A, Session 6

Sharon became Chief Information Officer in January 2022, in addition to her role as Chief Security Officer, holding responsibility for IT service, cloud & traditional technology infrastructure, security and technology resilience.

Prior to this, as Chief Resilience & Security Officer, Sharon headed up teams responsible for cyber, physical and information security activities, along with sourcing, supply chain management and divestments. As part of this role, Sharon led LBG’s operational resilience strategy & implementation and the Group’s response to regulatory policy requirements. She also led the Group’s incident response to the Covid-19 crisis.

Sharon has held executive roles across the Group in IT, Security, Risk and Major Programme Delivery.

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Workshop 9

Jay is the lead for the EMEA Red Team at Mandiant Google, where he runs the adversarial emulation and capability development project "APT66" alongside an ever-growing team of dedicated and highly-skilled Red Teamers

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Technical masterclass 3

Dr Jamie Collier is a Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor at Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud). He works with organisations in the EMEA region to help them understand their threat landscape and build threat intelligence capabilities. He is also active within academia as an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Before joining Mandiant, he was the Cyber Threat Intelligence Team Lead at Digital Shadows and completed a PhD in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford.

Jamie was previously based at MIT as a Cyber Security Fulbright Scholar and has experience working with the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Oxford Analytica, and PwC India.

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Workshop 10

Janet is Chair of the Board at two startups, Quantum Dice and Machine Discovery, NED at the Aerospace Technology Institute and Senior Independent Director at AIM listed EnSilica. She has held several senior positions within the semiconductor industry most recently as Group Director, Strategic accounts at Cadence Design System which involved leading international teams, driving the creation and execution of bespoke approaches and effective ecosystem partnerships delivering business revenue growth across the semiconductor supply chain. Other roles at Cadence included EMEA product line management, project management, global services, IP and software sales director, application engineering director. Prior to this, her roles included design & test engineering and technical customer support in USA and UK at National Semiconductor and Fairchild Semiconductors.

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Stream C, Session 4

Adrian is one of the founders and a board director of Amiosec. He has over 25 years’ experience in the research, design and development of security and safety critical products and solutions. This experience has included the design, development and delivery a range of Cyber Security and Encryption products for UK and 5-eyes governments. As CTO, Adrian’s focus is to leverage this experience and work in partnership with customers to provide technology solutions to help develop rapid, COTS based solutions to support their deployable secure communication and cyber security requirements. Adrian has long standing, respected and trusted relationships with NCSC and UK customers.

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Stream C, Session 6

Andrew's team in the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology supports growth and innovation in the UK cyber sector, tackles the shortage of people in the cyber workforce, and works to push up technology security standards in IoT and connected places. He previously led on data protection, developing the Data Protection Act 2018, as well as other government digital policy priorities.

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David is the chair of the Scottish National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board advising Scottish Ministers on the Scottish National Resilience Strategy. He is a director of Beyond Blue a boutique consulting firm, and also the global head for Cyber Futures at KPMG International.

Previously the Head of Cyber and Space at the Ministry of Defence, David has over 30 years of cyber security experience and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Chartered Institute of Information Security. He was made an OBE for his contribution to national security post 9-11.

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Workshop 11

James is a principal consultant at Cyberis, where he specialises in leading complex bespoke projects for Cyberis’ clients.  He has been a CHECK Team Leader since 2018, and is an expert in both the application and infrastructure testing disciplines.

James is highly-focussed on solving customer problems, and a large part of his remit within Cyberis is the design and development of new services to meet changing customer needs.  One of James’ key strengths is cutting through confusion to identify clear pathways towards improvement in cyber security resilience.  His consultancy acumen means he is often called upon to help solve the biggest security challenges.

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Workshop 9

Laura Gillespie is a Partner in the Pinsent Masons’ Cyber team, helping clients in their response to both domestic and international cyber incidents, regulatory investigations and post breach litigation.  Laura assists both corporate and insurer clients and her extensive experience in managing incidents means she can help clients navigate the legal challenges when faced with a cyber incident.   Laura helps clients through their engagement with the Information Commissioner’s Office, and other regulators, ensuring a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach to the incident, working alongside the incident response team.  Laura also advises clients on their cyber-readiness programmes, exploring issues such as incident planning, engaging relevant stakeholders, notification triggers and threat actor engagement

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Workshop 16

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Dougie is a long-established cyber security leader, responder, and investigator after having developed the Cyber Incident response capability in PSNI, City of London Police and an extended period in the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) part of GCHQ.

During this time Dougie supported the coordinated response to the most significant cyber-attacks and incidents affecting the UK and our allies.  

He has investigated and resolved many hundreds of incidents including ransomware, industrial cyber insider attacks and crisis affecting individuals.

Dougie has developed a unique framework for responding to incidents and continues to lead the response in many global attacks whilst supporting the cyber security industry as a member of the NCSC’s Industry 100 team.

He is a graduate of UCD achieving a First Class Masters in Forensic Computing and Cyber Investigations and also maintains a range of professional cyber qualifications.

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Workshop 16

Mary is the global CISO for BAE Systems plc.  She is a speaker at events around the world, particularly in the area of Responsible Cyber Power and is a strong advocate for diversity founding R.I.S.E, the women in cyber security cross industry mentoring scheme. 

Since joining BAE Systems in 2015 she has held a number of roles including Director of Cyber, where she developed the cyber vision and strategy, roadmap and go to market strategy for the cyber products and services.

Mary has worked in the cyber security domain since 2009, prior to that working in semiconductors research and then specialising in Intellectual Property management.  Her PhD was in semiconductor physics.

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Stream A, Session 6

Robert Hannigan is Chairman of international business at BlueVoyant UK Ltd. He was previously Director, GCHQ, and oversaw the creation of the NCSC. He has advised a number of governments and international businesses and writes and broadcasts regularly on cyber security.

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Workshop 12

Brian Honan is CEO of BH Consulting an independent cybersecurity and data protection advisory firm based in Dublin, Ireland. Brian is an internationally recognised expert on cybersecurity. He is a member of the Advisory Group of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Brian has previously acted as a special advisor to Europol’s Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and is the founder of Ireland’s first Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). He is also a member of the advisory board of several innovative security companies. Brian is the author of several books and regularly writes for various publications. For his contributions to the cybersecurity industry, Brian has been awarded the ‘SC Magazine Information Security Person of the Year’, is recognised as one of the UK CSO Top 30 for 2022, and has also been inducted into the ‘Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame

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Workshop 16

Saj is Plexal’s CCO, leading their innovation team. He specialises in building collaborative ecosystems between startups, government, industry and academia and has led numerous high-profile innovation initiatives. This includes LORCA – a world-leading accelerator that’s helped 72 of the UK’s most promising cyber startups earn more than £68m in revenue and secure over £300m in investment – and the NCSC Innovation Partnership, which delivers NCSC for Startups and is building an innovation ecosystem to further the UK’s cyber and national security agenda.

Saj started his career in the Royal Air Force, where he was a commissioned officer and pilot, and spent several years as a management consultant at Deloitte and PwC before he moved into the world of startups.

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Stream A, Session 5

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Workshop 15

Siân John MBE is a Senior Director in Security Business Development at Microsoft. She leads a team focusing on developing opportunities for Microsoft to deliver new security, compliance, identity, management and privacy offerings to market.

Siân has worked in Cybersecurity for 25 years across strategy, business risk, privacy, and technology. She is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Information Security and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours List for services to Cybersecurity.

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Stream C, Session 5

As president of CREST, Rowland is focused on driving initiatives to deliver increased engagement across the 250+ CREST members and all CREST qualified individuals globally. He is responsible for working internationally with governments, regulators and other key industry stakeholders to build stronger technical cyber security ecosystems. 
A former member of the CREST GB Executive, serving between 2014 and 2020, he has been a dedicated supporter of the organisation for many years and instrumental in CREST’s international growth, playing an integral role in the creation of CREST chapters in Singapore, USA and Hong Kong. 

Rowland was a founding director of cyber security company Nettitude and oversaw its acquisition by Lloyd’s Register in 2018. Following the acquisition, he worked with the leadership team as a strategic advisor focussing on global growth.
Rowland has worked closely with international governments and regulators to bring about increased levels of capability in the Penetration Testing, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response and Security Operations Centre markets.  

He is able to talk about these from a government and strategy perspective as well as sharing real-world examples from  the field. Rowland presents at many international events and is a passionate infosec leader who is actively trying to professionalise the cyber security industry.

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Stream A, Session 6

Emma is a Senior Consultant at CrowdStrike and leads various activities across EMEA which are dedicated to enhancing organisations’ readiness to respond to a cyber-attack. She focuses particularly on the regularly overlooked and complex aspects of incident management, which without advance consideration, adversely impact the ability of a business to respond quickly and effectively. This extends to the handling of legal and regulatory risk, with explicit attention given to privileged investigations. Emma is a former operations manager  in the National Cyber Crime Unit in the NCA and worked extensively in major incident response alongside NCSC. 

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Workshop 16

Victoria Knight, Strategic Campaigns Director BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, which helps nations, governments and businesses around the world tackle the evolving challenges of the digital age by collecting, connecting and understanding complex data to unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Victoria has over 25 years of experience in the technology sector working with customers in both commercial and secure government sectors. Victoria chairs the Greater Manchester Cyber Advisory Group, is a member of NCSC - Cyber First Industry Advisory Board, a governance board member for Innovation Greater Manchester (iGM) and the Digital Innovation and Security Hub in Manchester.

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Stream A, Session 5

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Technical masterclass 3

Karl Lankford is the RVP, Solutions Engineering EMEIA, for BeyondTrust and has worked at BeyondTrust for 6 years. He has acquired a wide-range of security experience and knowledge working with companies across multiple industries and is a regular speaker at industry conferences.

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Workshop 13

Keith Lippert has 30 years of experience in financial services and is currently Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for the Allstate Corporation.

As Allstate’s first security officer outside the United States, Keith brings an important global lens to cybersecurity issues.  He is responsible for establishing and driving individualized information security strategy and programs for each of the major Allstate business lines and leads the Identity Access Management team.

Keith partners with business and technology executives to increase security awareness and strengthen security across the Allstate enterprise and Family of Companies.

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Stream A, Session 4

Peter oversees a global group of expert Incident Response analysts to triage, contain and neutralize active threats. Peter has worked at Sophos since 2011, and is a specialist on ransomware, speaking on the topic at a number of conferences and in the media.

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Workshop 15

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Stream A, Session 6

Scott Mongeau, PhD MBA MA MA GD, OR Society Chartered Scientist (CSci), INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP), Google Certified Data Engineer, is a Security & Defence Solutions Engineer at Google Cloud.

Scott has over 35 years of experience designing and deploying solutions across a range of sectors:  analytics software and services (SAS Institute); management consulting (Deloitte, Accenture, and own firm SARK7); university and academia; government services; policing, military and intelligence services; financial services, banking, and insurance; telecom; bio-pharma and materials; and several start-ups.  Scott is a frequent conference presenter and university guest lecturer on management of information systems, data science, and security. His book ‘Cybersecurity Data Science’ was published by Springer in 2021.

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Workshop 10

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Workshop 9

Thomas is the CEO and co-founder at deltaflare with two decade’s experience within industrial control systems and cyber security for Critical National Infrastructure in the energy and utility industries. He is a design appraiser in the gas industry, TÜV certified, and a certified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP). Thomas is named by DNVGL as the Competent Design Authority for the UK gas industry in the area of OT Cyber Security. With the current demand for OT experience in cyber security and IIoT infrastructure, Thomas is one of deltaflare’s principal advisors and has spearheaded and delivered a number of flagship ICS cyber security centric innovation funded projects within the utility sector. These projects have impacted the automation industry and have influenced asset owners’ policies and strategies, whilst enabling and embracing digital transformation. He frequently presents nationally and internationally at conferences on the topic of ICS cyber security.

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Stream C Session 5

Michael Pezzullo AO was appointed Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs on 20 December 2017.  Mr Pezzullo leads the Department responsible for the coordination of strategy, planning and policy related to issues affecting domestic security, immigration and borders.
Prior to this, Mr Pezzullo was Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS).
Before joining ACBPS, Mr Pezzullo worked in a number of senior positions within the Department of Defence including a period where he was the principal author of the 2009 Defence White Paper.
On 8 June 2020, Mr Pezzullo was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (General Division)."

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Erin Shepley works as the Chief of the Partnerships Office within the JCDC.  Erin’s work carries across government partners, international boundaries and critical infrastructure sectors to rapidly share relevant cyber threat information and insights and build a better picture of threats to our cyber ecosystem.  Erin has worked at DHS for over 12 years supporting the cybersecurity mission, but always with a focus on partners, and has led development and execution of CISA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month campaign.

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Stream B, Session 4

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Stream C, Session 6

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Stream C, Session 6

Simon is CEO of Vertical Structure, an independent cyber security advisory company specialising in providing human focused security and penetration testing services for web applications, cloud infrastructure and mobile applications.

All of Simon’s work is based around the principles of Prepare, Protect, Persist® - whereby clients are prepared to encounter security threats through training, protected through identifying / resolving issues and persisting the resilience through certification and ongoing consulting.

Simon is chair of the steering committee for NICyber Security Cluster and is dedicated to improving the visibility, and capabilities of Northern Ireland’s Cyber Security organisations on the world’s stage.

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Stream A, Session 4

Graeme Wilkinson is the Director of Skills in the Department for the Economy. His role includes the development of a new Skills Strategy (2030) for Northern Ireland, the delivery of a suite skills related programmes and the development of a new framework for those young people (16-24) not in employment, education or training (NEET).  

Prior to taking up this post, Graeme led the EU exit preparations as Director of EU Relations in TEO and as Brexit Director in DAERA.

Graeme is a Chartered Accountant and has spent the majority of his career in the Public sector.

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Stream A, Session 4

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Stream A, Session 6

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Stream B, Session 4

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Stream B, Session 5

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Stream B, Session 6

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Workshop 4
Workshop 14

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Workshop 4
Workshop 14