Dr Ali El Kaafarani

Dr Ali El Kaafarani is the founder and CEO of PQShield, a British cybersecurity startup specializing in quantum-secure solutions. A University of Oxford spinout, PQShield is pioneering the commercial rollout of a new generation of cryptography that’s fit for the quantum challenge, yet integrates with companies’ legacy technology systems to protect them from the biggest threats of today and tomorrow. Dr El Kaafarani is a research fellow at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute and a former engineer at Hewlett-Packard Labs, with over a decade of academic and industrial experience. He is also a leading authority in the cryptography community.