Speakers

Shaun Hipgrave is Director National Security Protect and Prepare, two of the Ps from the UK Counter Terrorism Strategy CONTESTS. He was the former Head of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSARC) in the Home Office, which he set up from scratch from 2016, and is the policy area for working with academia and the private sector as well as the unit that runs the HO Security and Policing show every year. Shaun has been working in the security sector for over 30 years. 

After serving in the British Army, he joined Northumbria Police where he served for 13 years, mainly in investigation and intelligence roles. In 2003 he moved to the private sector joining a services and software forensic company focused on the criminal justice space. In 2012 he moved to IBM where he worked in the analytics solutions business then joined the Home Office in 2016.

In Shaun’s current role he has the national responsibility to protect the UK citizens from national security threats such as public venues and locations, places of worship, hostile drones and royalty and VIP protection. He also have responsibility for the preparedness of the UK system in response to a national security attack delivering capabilities such as attack response, JESIP, victims of terrorism support and overseas protect and preparedness