Caroline Baylon

She runs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations in the UK Parliament, which focuses on promoting greater long-term thinking in policymaking. As part of this, she established a joint project with the Ukrainian Parliament on scenario planning. Caroline also serves as a consultant on foresight for the United Nations Development Programme, as an expert on innovation and foresight to Interpol, and as a course facilitator on the Oxford Scenarios Programme.

She was previously the Security Research and Innovation Lead at financial services company AXA, where she led a team focused on addressing emerging cybersecurity and AI risks as well as identifying promising innovations. Prior to that, she was the cybersecurity lead at Chatham House, where her research concentrated on cybersecurity threats to nuclear power plants, satellites and other critical infrastructure. She has also served as an expert on the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity’s Ad-hoc Working Group on AI Cybersecurity, as an expert for the French government on cybersecurity and cybercrime in West Africa, and as a cybersecurity researcher for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on curbing the proliferation of cyber weapons.

Caroline was formerly a vice president at the Center for Strategic Decision Research, where her work encompassed the war in Afghanistan, peacebuilding and reconstruction efforts in the country, and online radicalisation by terrorist groups such as al Qaeda and ISIS.

In the late 1990s she worked on the staff of the NATO Workshops on Political-Military Decision Making in various eastern European countries which concentrated on NATO enlargement negotiations and as a research assistant at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation on nuclear disarmament. She also serves as a research associate in the Emerging Threats Group at the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre.