Jessica Hunter

Jessica Hunter leads Australia's international engagement on cyber affairs and critical technology issues, while delivering cyber capacity and resilience building, and incident responses across our region. She has had a distinguished 20+ career in cyber affairs, including in the Australian Cyber Security Centre, recently as the First Assistant Director General Cyber Security Resilience. She has served overseas as Head of Cyber Threat Operations Technical Teams, National Cyber Security Centre, in the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters; and was seconded to the United States’ National Security Agency as Deputy Australian Liaison Officer. She holds a Bachelor of Asian Studies, a Bachelor of Arts, and a Master of Strategic Studies from the Australian National University.