Christine Maxwell is a cyber security leader who has worked across multiple industries including Defence, Oil and Gas, Banking and Professional Services.

Christine joined the Cyber Security team at MOD in April 2019 as Director Cyber Defence and Risk and is accountable for driving defensive cyber strategy, capability development and defining policy and Defence-wide defensive cyber requirements and compliance including the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) and awareness, behaviours and culture.

Prior to joining the MOD Christine held leadership roles in the security governance, risk and compliance domains and led large-scale cyber transformation programmes. Christine has extensive experience working with Boards and Executive groups to understand cyber security risk from a business and operational perspective and creating achievable cyber security strategies that improve the overall risk position.