John Smith

Biography

Appointed in 2013 he was Director of Group Resilience at Prudential plc. His portfolio at Prudential included political and security risk, physical, operational and IT security, information risk, financial crime including money laundering control, anti-corruption, fraud prevention and investigation, disaster and crisis management, business recovery and privacy. His particular interests are international terrorism, pressure groups, information risk, incident and crisis management and the development of emerging leaders in the security profession. He is also a trustee of Hostage UK (www.hostageuk.org). He is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and of Manchester University where he read psychology.