Sarah Clarke
Sarah is a security and data protection governance specialist on a tireless mission to cut through the murk of new buzzwords to make all of our lives a bit easier. After a business degree at Edinburgh University, she toyed with customer relations, then stumbled into IT. In the intervening 20 years, including nearly a decade working in the financial services sector she gained some really valuable insight into cybersecurity and data protection challenges.
Translating lessons learned into better ways to tackle governance and risk in depth and at both start-up and corporate scale. She is also an award-winning blog writer, frequent contributor to trade publications, speaker, and a guest lecturer for the Manchester University IT Governance masters course.
Her overarching aim is to make it simpler to do things in a secure and privacy-respecting way. Born from the conviction that no-one should be accountable for something they can't influence, or don't understand.
When not doing, speaking, or writing about GRC, she fights for better treatment for pancreatic cancer, mainly through Pancreatic Cancer UK. It is a deadly and ignored disease and deserves all the publicity and political attention we can muster.