Peter Warren chairs the Cyber Security Research Institute. He is an award-winning freelance journalist specialising in technology, undercover investigations and science issues. In demand as a speaker and thought leader, he has recently presented a 75-page report on ‘Ethics in the Digital World’ to EU decision-makers in Brussels and given a speech to the French Senate (the upper house of parliament) on the same theme. He has been asked by both the UK Government and Opposition to contribute to cyber security policy. Peter has given academic talks at Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London and he is the author of two books on cyberwarfare.

Every month he presents the UK’s only independent live radio talk show devoted to technology in society, PassWord with Peter Warren on Resonance 104.4FM www.resonancefm.com
The former technology editor of Scotland on Sunday and the Sunday Express and an associate producer for BBC2, he has worked across a variety of media, including the Guardian, the Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Express, Sunday Business, Channel 4, Sky News, the BBC and specialist magazines. In 1996 Peter was runner-up in the UK Press Gazette Business Awards for Technology Scoop of the Year. He was a guest speaker on Technology Ethics to the European Union’s Information Society Technologies conference in Helsinki, Peter, who lives in Suffolk, is an acknowledged expert on computer security issues.

In 2006, Peter won the BT IT Security News story of the year prize for his work exposing the practice of discarding computer hard drives containing sensitive business and personal data.
In 2007, Peter won the IT Security News story of the year prize again for work done with Future Intelligence showing that Chinese hackers had broken into the UK Houses of Parliament.
In 2008 Peter won the BT Enigma Award for services to technology security journalism.