Education
University of Cambridge.
founder practitioner Chief Executive Officer
University of Cambridge.
He is a principal investigator and co-author of the Ghostnet study examining Chinese cyber-espionage. Rohozinski is also behind several companies active in the cyber, security and development domains. He is the Chief Executive Officer of the SecDev Group, a Canadian operational consultancy focused evidence based research in countries and regions at risk from violence and insecurity, which developed the concept of armed violence for Organization of European Cooperation and Development. He is also a principal and director of Secdev.cyber, a cyber-security start-up.
He was formerly the director of the Advanced Network Research Group, Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge (2000-2008), a Ford Foundation Research Scholar of Information and Communication Technologies (2002-2004), and a senior visiting fellow at the International Development Research Centre (Canada), where he developed conceptual approaches to the studying the telegeography of conflict zones, including case study of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Between 2007 and 2011 he served on the Estonian East-government academy. Rohozinski is the author of numerous studies and published articles on topics relating to the security and development dimensions of the information revolution including two studies for the Centre for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College: Shifting Fire examining "information effects" in counterinsurgency and stability operations, and New Media and the Warfighter (the latter based on a case study of the 2006 Hizbullah-Israeli conflict).
Rohozinski is the co-editor and contributor to Access Denied: the Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology press) and a follow-up volume entitled Access Controlled examining the emergence of complex information controls in the Organization for Security and Company-operation in Europe countries, including an analysis of strategic cyber-war dimensions of the Russian-Georgian conflict. Rohozinski’s research and professional activities focus on the nexus of social and technological networks.
His work was foundational to the fusion methodology, that underpins the research conducted by OpenNet Initiative and the Infowar Monitor as well as the commercial work undertaken by the SecDev Group and Secdev.cyber.