Speakers

Jo Miller is the National Security Officer at Microsoft, and a career security and technology professional. She has held various senior executive roles across the public sector, primarily in national security and defence, as Director for Serious and Organised Crime, and then Chief Data Officer in the Home Office, specialising in the intersection between security, technology, and geopolitics. She holds a range of non-executive Board roles, is a Trustee at UCAS, a NED on the Board of the UK's national governing body for snowsports, and Chair of the Board of the UK's flagship regional cyber ecosystem, a community-interest company comprised of over 5,000 members. 

Jo is a Chartered Fellow with the Institute of Directors, and is especially engaged with risk management and technology and security governance, a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she has explored and assessed the judgements that the UK makes on threats to its national security, and an active advocate for women in under-represented industries, especially snowsports, technology, and security. A keen sportsperson and most at home in the mountains, Jo is an enthusiastic skier and explorer; and an instinctive collaborator, Jo finds her joy amongst people from whom she can learn, solving intellectual puzzles, and thinking-forwards and strategically about the future. Connect with her on LinkedIn and engage with her posts and articles on national security, technology, and geopolitics.