Professor Carsten Maple is the Principal Investigator of the NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research at the University and Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering in WMG. He is also a co-investigator of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity, and is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, where he is a principal investigator on a $5 million project developing trustworthy national digital identity to enable financial inclusion. Carsten is co-investigator on the Framework for Responsible AI in Finance project, leading on Security and Privacy, and is a group lead in the Financial Conduct Authority’s Synthetic Data Expert Group. He has an international research reputation, having published over 350 peer-reviewed papers. His research has attracted millions of pounds in funding and has been widely reported through the media. He has given evidence to government committees on issues of anonymity and child safety online. Additionally he has advised the boards of public and multibillion pound private sector organisations and is a member of two Royal Society working groups, including the working group on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.