Dr Rayna Stamboliyska

Rayna Stamboliyska focuses on cyber diplomacy and resilience, including cybersecurity, EU strategic autonomy, and data protection. An award-winning author for her most recent book "La face cachée d'Internet" ("The dark side of the Internet", Larousse 2017), Rayna is also an IoT hacker and a staunch proponent of open source, data and science. Rayna has served in various executive and security-related foreign policy positions: she has consulted for international organisations, private companies, governments and non-profits, interfacing with public sector actors and guiding them through innovative policy-making processes. Energetic and passionate, Rayna has grown to become a recognised information security speaker committed to educating those outside of the industry on security threats and best practices. She teaches at Sciences Po Paris, is a regular guest to online and television programs, and writes up the cybersecurity expert column "50 shades of Internet" at ZDNet.fr. A longtime diversity and inclusion advocate, Rayna is a Council Member of the EU Women4Cyber Foundation.

Sub-specialties:
Data protection
EU-NATO
Foresight
AI
EU Public affairs
Peacebuilding
Cyber warfare