Dr Rosemary Pratt
Biography
Rosemary is Director, State Threats and Cyber in the National Security Secretariat, Cabinet Office, co-ordinating the government’s cyber strategy, and the cross government approach to detecting, deterring and responding to state threats to the UK’s people, infrastructure, economy and values.
She spent the early part of her career in a range of roles in the Department for Education, with a particular focus on literacy, children’s social care and safeguarding. Rosemary has also held senior roles in the Home Office, MoJ and DCMS, including responsibility for development and implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and leading work on Prevent at the Office of Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT). In 2014, she returned to DfE as its first Director of Counter Extremism, working to build young people’s resilience to extremist influences, and counter the growing safeguarding and national security risks from Daesh, and then at DCMS she was Director, Europe, Data, Digital and Security, moving to Cabinet Office in 2018. She has a degree in Philosophy and Modern Languages from Oxford University and a doctorate in German from UCL.
Previous roles in government
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Director Hostile State Activity (HSA) and Cyber Unit, National Security Secretariat
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Director Europe, Data, Digital, Security (EDDS)