Paddy McGuinness

Paddy McGuinness is Senior Adviser at Brunswick Group, the International Critical Issues firm. He advises on Crisis, Resilience and Public Affairs working with regional and specialist leads across Cyber, Litigation, Geopolitical, Activism and Regulatory Affairs. From 2014 – 2018, Paddy was the UK’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Intelligence, Security and Resilience advising two British Prime Minsters. He covered the UK’s National Risk Assessment and ability to respond to and recover from all hazards and threats, National crisis coordination, Cyber strategies and programmes, Counter Terrorism, countering Hostile State Activities, the security of Critical National Infrastructure and issues with inward investment. With Brunswick on Cyber he supports clients globally on ransomware, data loss and product vulnerability. In 2020/21 alone this included the finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and data processing sectors on three continents. Away from Brunswick Paddy works on techn