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Members Organisation.
QSECDEF connects government, industry, and academia to navigate the quantum transition. We represent more than 1,200 professional members working in over 600 organisations across four continents, providing the decision layer that builds members' capability and knowledge in deep tech cyber security.
Our Mission
QSECDEF was built for the moment security leaders ran out of good independent advice. Post-quantum migration made that moment urgent: organisations are making cryptographic architecture decisions without practitioner context, under regulatory timelines that are tightening, in a vendor market with a clear commercial interest in the outcome. The same conditions now apply to AI Security. Governance frameworks are immature. Threat models are contested. The decisions being made now about AI Security architecture will be difficult to reverse.
These are not two separate problems. They are two current expressions of the same underlying reality: infrastructure-scale security decisions are being made without an independent practitioner layer to make them well. QSECDEF is that layer. In both domains.
The Quantum Adoption Path
Leadership Team
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard
Chief Executive Officer
Germany
English, German, Danish, Polish
Niki Harris
Policy and Engagement
Canada
English
Harlene Hernando
Operations Director
Philippines
English, Filipino
Steve Vaile
Director
France
English, French
José Pizarro De La Iglesia
Advisor
Netherlands
English, Dutch, Spanish, French, German
Professor Julian Richards
Advisor
United Kingdom
English
Dr Michal Krelina
Advisor
Czech Republic
English, Czech
Chris Basener
Advisor
New York, USA
English
Bernard Soo
Advisor
Singapore
English
Maciej J. Nowakowski
Advisor
Poland
English, Polish
Ken Lin
Advisor
Singapore
English
Governance
Legal status
UK Limited Company
Organisation type
Global Membership Association under UK Governance
Financial reporting
Financial report to be published Q2 2025 (first full year of operation)
Our Quantum-Safe Instructors
Tenured professors, doctoral researchers, and graduates with backgrounds in quantum physics, information technology, and cyber security. Collectively hundreds of years of experience in deep-tech security, quantum technology, photonics, and quantum communications in defence and critical infrastructure departments.
We provide supply chain consulting through a professional membership model, and deliver project services for corporates, governments, and critical infrastructure departments worldwide.
Become Part of the Network
Join 1,200+ professionals working together to ensure safe quantum adoption worldwide.