Emma Leith

Emma has over 13 years’ experience in leading cyber security and privacy agendas across a variety of industry sectors including financial services, oil and gas, telecoms and government. Emma is responsible for the delivery of security and privacy services across the bank, in line with the continued commitment to protect Santander’s systems, information and customers from the growing cyber risks. Emma joined from Barclays International where she was Director of Cyber Strategy and Programme. Prior to this, she was CISO for the Corporate Functions and Commodity Trading Division at BP Oil International and was a key part of the global digital security team in BP and contributed to the overall cyber security strategy for the Group. In 2018, Emma was a finalist at the Women in IT Awards in the Security Champion of the year category.