Steve Hill

Steve Hill has been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London since April 2017.

Mr Hill is Deputy Group CISO at UBS and Group CISO at Credit Suisse, where he previously headed the Operational Resilience program and, before that, Technology, Cyber, and Third Party Risk Management. He retired from a position as Deputy Director in the UK National Security Secretariat of the Cabinet Office in 2017. Mr Hill served for over three decades at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office dealing with international security and intelligence threats, including terrorism and proliferation. He had posting in Vienna, Washington, Dubai, Kabul and at the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge.

Teaching

• Cybersecurity strategy

Research Interests

• Conflict and security
• International relations
• Cybersecurity

Publications

• Hill S., Stevens T., O’Brien K., Overill R, Wilkinson B., PIldegovics R. ‘UK Active Cyber Defence’, The Policy Institute, King’s College London, 2019. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute/assets/uk-active-cyber-defence.pdf)
• Hill S., Creese S.‘Cyber Resilience: A leadership challenge and responsibility’, National Preparedness Commission, 2021.