The GFCE Announces a Strategic Steering Committee
The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) is proud to announce the establishment of a new Strategic Steering Committee (SSC). This marks a significant milestone in the evolution of GFCE’s governance, reflecting our commitment to being a multistakeholder, community-driven platform.
Strengthening Governance and Community Involvement
As the GFCE continues to grow and mature as a global platform, there has been a recognized need for a more inclusive and formalized approach to shaping its strategic direction. The establishment of the SSC directly responds to this need, ensuring that the GFCE remains a community-led organization. SSC directly responds to this need, ensuring that the GFCE remains a community-led platform that empowers the GFCE community to contribute to its strategic priorities and long-term goals.
A New Era of Inclusive Leadership
With the formation of the SSC, the GFCE streamlines its governance structures, ensuring that they are better understood and aligned with the community’s long-term interests. As part of the SSC establishment, the GFCE Co-chairs, and Advisory Board will be dissolved, as they are now integrated within the new Committee. This evolution represents a shift towards a broader –based, more empowered structure that better reflects the diverse and growing global community of GFCE members and partners.
The list of the new SSC:
- Sorene Assefa – Cybersecurity and Digital Governance Expert, UNECA
- Kerry-Ann Barrett – Section Chief of the Cybersecurity Section, Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism of the Organization of American States (OAS/CICTE)
- Cristina Camacho-Teran – Chair of the GFCE Foundation Board
- Kaja Ciglic - Senior Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft
- Irene Corpuz – Co-founder of Women in Cybersecurity Middle East (WiCSME)
- Mitchell Dunn – Director, Cyber Cooperation, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
- Richard Harris – Principal Cybersecurity Policy Engineer, MITRE Corporation
- Louise Marie Hurel - Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) Cyber Team
- Simon Kendall – Deputy Head of the Cyber Policy Department, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
- S. Krishnan – Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
- Joanna LaHaie – Director of the International Engagement & Capacity Building Office, International Cyberspace Security Policy Unit, U.S. State Department’s Cyberspace and Digital Policy Bureau (CDP)
- Maartje Peters – Head of the Digital and Hybrid Threat Departments, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands
Looking Forward
The establishment of the SSC represents a pivotal step in the GFCE’s ongoing evolution. With this development, we look forward to fostering even greater collaborations, inclusivity, and transparency in driving the GFCE’s strategic growth and advancing our mission to enhance global cyber capacity building.
