A former UK Government cyber leader and Financial Times cyber chief, Dr. Ahana Datta Fasel advises global governments and industry on geopolitical, AI and systemic risk strategies.
She serves as non-executive director at a leading global digital rights charity, adviser to deep tech start-ups, and a strategic adviser on national security and resilience to the UK body for research, innovation and international partnerships. A prolific speaker and writer, she has held fellowships at Cornell, Cambridge, Imperial and Durham.
Her forthcoming book, Full Stack Spies: Cyber Espionage in the Age of US–China Competition (C Hurst & Co, June 2026), traces the shift from the tactical ‘hack’ to the structural ‘stack’, showing how cyber espionage became an instrument of power in a new Great Game played through the global digital architecture — and why trust is now the decisive strategic asset in an unstable world order.
In the Media
- Euractiv Iran-China intelligence opportunity
- Financial Times Huawei and the dilemmas of the surveillance age
- Columbia Journalism Review Governments of the world just ramped up spying on reporters
- OneTeamGov Podcast Cybersecurity and the Civil Service
- Plutopia Podcast The Security-Insecurity Paradox