Louise Marie Hurel, is a Research Fellow in the Cyber team at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Her research interests include incident response, cyber capacity building, cyber diplomacy and non-governmental actors’ engagement in cyber security. She is also the founder of the Latin American Cybersecurity Research Network (LA/CS Net), an academic platform for research and dialogue in the region, as well as a PhD researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Louise Marie is co-chair of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise’s (GFCE) advisory board, and member of the advisory group of Carnegie Endowment’s Partnership for Countering Influence Operations. For the past years, Louise Marie has conducted international cyber advocacy in multilateral (UN, OAS) and multi-stakeholder bodies, hosted and moderated forums for cross-sector trust-building at the national level in politically sensitive environments and managed a portfolio of projects that covered themes ranging from incidents against electoral processes, implementation of surveillance technologies for public security, IoT, cyber capacity building, cybercrime and data protection.
