SPEAKERS

Kathryn Jones

Head of Cyber Strategy & Engagement at UK FCDO

Kathryn Jones is Head of Cyber Strategy and Engagement at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. A long term foreign affairs and security professional she has extensive experience of working internationally on cyber and national security issues. She has previously lead the UK delegation to the UN Open Ended Working Group on Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Informal Working Group on Cybersecurity, as well as taking her place on the 2021 UN Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing responsible State behaviour in cyberspace in the context of international security.

She has previously worked in a range of government departments including the UK’s Department for Digital Policy and National Cyber Security Centre, and has represented the UK in the OECD and the UN ITU.