Dr. Sadie Creese

Biography

Sadie Creese is a Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She specializes in operational aspects of cybersecurity, including threat detection, risk assessment, and security architectures. Sadie teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Security and serves as the Chair of Examiners for the MSc Computer Science program. In addition to her teaching role, she is a faculty member of the Blavatnik School and lectures on cybersecurity topics relevant to senior leaders in public policy. Sadie is the founding Director of the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the Oxford Martin School, where she conducts research on national cybersecurity capacities worldwide. She also established Oxford's Cybersecurity network, CyberSecurity@Oxford, in 2008, and is involved with the World Economic Forum’s Cyber Security Centre. Her extensive experience includes advising the Government of Japan on international data flow governance and acting as a cybersecurity expert within industry and military contexts. Sadie holds a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, along with an MSc in Computation and a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Philosophy.

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