Briony Daley Whitworth
Director, Cyber & Tech Multilateral Engagement Section, Cyber Affairs & Critical Technology Branch, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (International Security Division) Director, Cyber & Tech Multilateral Engagement Section, Cyber Affairs & Critical Technology Branch, International Security Division, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
About this speaker
Ms Daley Whitworth specialises in cyber, digital and technology policy at its intersection with international relations. Briony leads Australia’s multilateral cyber and tech engagement, with a particular focus on UN processes discussing international law and responsible state behaviour. She represents Australia as Head of Delegation to the UN Open Ended Working Group on cyber (OEWG) and the UN Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on cybercrime (AHC), and serves as Vice Chair to the AHC.
Previously, Briony served as Australia’s lead negotiator for a protocol to the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, and as Australia’s cybercrime expert to the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and UN Intergovernmental Experts Group on Cybercrime.
Briony holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Technology Sydney and a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales.
