Artificial Intelligence Risk

Karen is an Anchoram Director of Cybersecurity (AI Risk) with 18 years of experience in a range of different sectors and roles. She is especially interested in practically creating, evolving, and applying cyber governance as one aspect of holistic organisational governance for improving organisational outcomes and optimising ethical technology use.

Leveraging a background of university undergraduate teaching and technical roles across Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) in rail systems, Karen’s main experience and specialisation is in Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC). Her experience includes in Head of Cyber Governance in a Critical Infrastructure organisation, large and small Federal Government department experience including ITSA level, and various senior subject matter expert positions in tertiary education, health insurance and resources.

Karen holds a Masters in Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy from UNSW Canberra with other postgraduate qualifications in Strategy and Management and a Bachelor with Honors (AI, Machine Learning project) in Computing Science. She also has a CISM, CRISC and is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia. Along with leadership-targeted AI risk-related blog posts, she contributes to international and Federal calls for input on AI risk and ethical usage. Her joint submission to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework generated discussion and refinement and more recent submissions include the Department of Industry, Science and Resources submissions for Responsible AI in Australia and the NIST Cyber Security Framework 2.0 draft with a focus on new technologies.

Life outside work and AI revolves around her children and volunteering with organisations related to their activities and interests. She is biding her time to when it is possible to again indulge in being a recreational equestrian.