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Professor Sadie Creese

Professor of Cybersecurity

Supernumerary Fellow

Education

BSc (North London), MSc DPhil (Oxford)

Sadie Creese is Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She teaches operational aspects of cybersecurity including threat detection, risk assessment and security architectures. In Computer Science she teaches the second year Computer Security course, and the Advanced Security course taken both by BSc undergraduates and MSc graduate students. Sadie is currently Chair of Examiners for the MSc in Computer Science. Elsewhere in Oxford, Sadie is a member of the faculty of the Blavatnik School Executive Public Leaders Programme, where she lectures on cybersecurity topics relevant to senior leaders in public policy from around the world. She also is a regular contributor to the leadership programmes and MBA teaching of the Saïd Business School.

Sadie is a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford where she sits on the Governing Body, and a regular public speaker on cybersecurity and organisational challenges today and in the future. Prior to returning to academia she has worked as a cybersecurity expert in business and as a research scientist specializing in security for the UK’s Ministry of Defence. She has a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, as well as an MSc in Computation and a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and Philosophy.