Robert is international Chairman of BlueVoyant, a global cyber security services company. He is a former Director of GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence and cyber security agency, and established the UK National Cyber Security Centre in 2016. He retired from Government after 20 years in national security roles, including Prime Minister’s Security Adviser.
Robert writes on cyber, technology and national security issues in the Financial Times and is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center, Harvard, the Royal United Services Institute, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, London.