The Cyber Ecosystem 2020

Dr Michelle Tuveson is a Founder and Executive Director at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies hosted at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Her responsibilities include the overall executive leadership at the Centre. This includes developing partnership relationships with corporations, governments, and other academic centres. Dr Tuveson leads the Cambridge CRO Council and she chairs the organising committee for the Cambridge Risk Centre’s Annual Risk Summits. She is one of the lead organisers of the Aspen Crisis and Risk Forum. She is an advisor to the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Global Risk Report and a contributor to the Financial Times Special Report on Risk Management. She is also an advisor to a number of corporations and boards as well as a frequent conference speaker.

Dr Tuveson has worked in corporations within the technology sector with her most recent position in the Emerging Markets Group at Lockheed Martin. Prior to that, she held positions with management strategy firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, and US R&D organisation MITRE Corporation. Dr Tuveson’s academic research focuses on the application of simulation models to study risk governance structures associated with the role of the Chief Risk Officer. She was awarded by the Career Communications Group, Inc. as a Technology Star for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). She earned her BS in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS in Applied Math from Johns Hopkins University, and PhD in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. She is a member of Christ’s College, Cambridge.

Eireann is a Risk Researcher at the Centre for Risk Studies, where his research focuses upon technological disasters and the economic impacts of computer security failures or accidents.

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Dr Jennifer Daffron is the Cyber Research Lead at the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies. Her research interests include defining and exposing cyber threat vulnerabilities on organisational and human behavioural platforms. Jennifer holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Cambridge.

Derek Blum is a Senior Director, Product Management at Risk Management Solutions.  He is an entrepreneurial product and project manager with a skill for solving complex problems and working cross-functionally.

Matt is the recently appointed Director of Product Management, for Cyber Solutions at RMS.

Prior to this he worked at Hiscox for 14 years in a wide variety of predominately specialty cat modelling/exposure management roles.  The last six years were primarily focused on building capability to measure cyber and liability/casualty risk.

Matt has a PhD in Physics (Fluid Mechanics), which has had a startlingly minimal cross-over with his career to date.

Kelly is a Senior Risk Manager at Beazley and for the last five years has had a specialist focus on cyber risk and innovation across all classes of business, most recently developing Beazley affirmative physical damage marine hull product.

She is responsible for providing cyber risk assurance to the board on the systemic aggregation potential, emerging risks, exposure management and capital provisions. She is also responsible for the implementation of the Beazley strategic initiative on client experience and chair of the environmental working group under the responsible business committee.

She has been at Beazley since 2009, has 20 years of London Market experience and is a member of the LMA’s Cyber Strategy Group which operates under the LMA Board.

Dr Andrew Coburn manages the External Advisory Board of the Centre for Risk Studies, coordinating the inputs of consumers of research into the Centre’s risk agenda. Andrew is the principal coordinator of the research programme on ‘System Shock’ at the Centre.

Andrew is one of the leading contributors to the creation of the class of catastrophe models that over the past 20 years has come to be an accepted part both of business management in financial services and of public policy making for societal risk. He has extensive experience in developing models and using them for business decision support. Andrew has also provided research inputs into government policy, such as House of Congress legislation on terrorism risk management policy and urban planning for disaster mitigation in Mexico, Metro Manila, and Southern Italy.

Dr Andrew Coburn is a member of the senior management of Risk Management Solutions, the leading provider of catastrophe risk models to the insurance industry.

Dr Maria Bada is a Senior Research Associate at the Cambridge Cyber Crime Centre.

The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre is a multi-disciplinary initiative combining expertise from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Computer Science and Technology, Institute of Criminology and Faculty of Law.

Anthony Shapella is Head of Analytics, Global Cyber Team at AIG.

Anthony has more than 15 years of experience leading risk and analytics teams. His specialities include cyber risk/accumulation modelling, emerging risk analysis and research, financial analysis and modelling, property and market strategy, and strategic and decision making.

James is a doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.  He is a hacker at heart, and always interested in the dynamics connecting weird hardware, security, and privacy. Right now, his main focus is on satellite systems security. He hopes to complete his PhD next year and then start the next adventure.