Heather Shipley

Heather Shipley is Senior Manager, Partnership Operations, at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, within the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). She is responsible for leading the regulations development, implementation, and operationalization of C8 (Critical Cyber Systems Protections Act) within the Critical Infrastructure – Partnerships directorate of Cyber Centre. She previously led the development and delivery of CSE’s Ministerial Authorizations for foreign intelligence, cybersecurity, and foreign cyber operations required by the CSE Act, as well as CSE’s legislative requirements and reporting for both the Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities Act and the Security of Canada Information Disclosure Act, and was CSE’s lead for a Five Eyes information sharing policy forum. Prior to joining CSE, Heather was an Education and Communications Advisor at the Centre for Human Rights, Equity, and Inclusion at York University (2017-2019), and from 2010-2017 was Pr