Rafal Rohozinski

Rafal Rohozinski is a Canadian expert and practitioner active in the fields of information security, cyber warfare, and the globalization of armed violence. Rohozinski is a founder and principal investigator of two significant cyber research initiatives: the Infowar Monitor, a joint project between The SecDev Group and the Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, which examines and documents emerging trends in cyber warfare; and, the OpenNet Initiative, a collaboration with the Citizen Lab, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School the Advanced Network Research Group at Cambridge University (now the SecDev Group) and the Oxford Internet Institute, which documents patterns of Internet censorship worldwide. He is a principal investigator and co-author of the 2009 Ghostnet study examining Chinese cyber-espionage.

Rohozinski is also behind several companies active in the cyber, security and development domains. He is the CEO and chairman of the SecDev Group, a Canadian risk consultancy focused evidence-based research in countries and regions at risk from violence and insecurity, which developed the concept of armed violence for OECD. He is also a principal and director of Secdev.cyber, a cyber-security start-up. In 2017, Secdev.cyber was re-launched Zeropoint security. He was formerly the director of the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge (2000-2008), a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies (2002-2004), and a senior visiting fellow at the International Development Research Centre (Canada), where he developed conceptual approaches to the studying the telegeography of conflict zones, including case study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Between 2007 and 2011 he served on the Estonian E-government academy. He currently sits on the advisory Board of the Canadian Association for Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), and, the Canadian International Council (CIC). He is also a senior fellow for cyber security and future conflict at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.

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