Paul Haskell-Dowland

Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Professor of Cyber Security Practice and Associate Dean for International and Strategic Partnerships in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia having served as the Associate Dean for Computing and Security from 2016-2026. Paul has delivered keynotes, invited presentations, workshops, professional development/training and seminars across the world for audiences including RSA Security, ITU and IEEE. He has appeared on local, national and international media (newspaper, radio and tv) commenting on current cyber issues with a global audience reach of more than four billion people. His contributions through articles published in The Conversation have reached over four million readers. Paul has more than 25 years of experience in cyber security research and education leadership in both the UK and Australia.

Paul is the Chair and Australian national representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 11 (TC11 - Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems); secretary to IFIP Working Group 11.1 (Information Security Management); and, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, BCS, ACS (Certified Professional) and the Australian Information Security Association. He is the author of over 100 papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings and edited 34 books/proceedings. Paul is a member of the editorial board for the Elsevier journal Computers and Security, as well as being an active reviewer for several journals.