Strategic Advisor Cyber Security
Charlotte Lindsey is an independent consultant. She has over 30 years’ experience in the humanitarian sector, including as Director of Digitalization and Data at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and as an independent consultant with international organizations, including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the UN. She was also Chief Public Policy Officer at the CyberPeace Institute from 2021-2024.
Over the last decade, she has focused on the impact, opportunities and risks of emerging technology and AI for humanitarian organisations. She has published on the Digital Transformation of the Humanitarian Sector, on cyberattacks in the international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, including the law and policy implications, as well as explored how technology helps reconnect families in times of war, cybersecurity of the sector, qualifying and quantifying harm, women and war. She is author of the IFRC’s World Disaster Report 2026 on Truth, Trust and Humanitarian Action in the Age of Harmful Information, and the Paris Peace Forum’s 2025 Report on the AI-Cybersecurity Nexus on the Global Governance of AI Safety.
She set up and managed the ICRC’s Data Protection Office, chaired the ICRC Digital Risk Summit and has written extensively on the opportunities and risks for the sector. She wrote the Digitalization strategies of the ICRC, and of Terre des hommes, a Swiss INGO. She also consults specialising in digitalisation and emerging technologies in the humanitarian sector, cyber influence operations affecting the sector, and digital and cyber policy. She has engaged actively with the UN Open-Ended Working Group on responsible use of ICTs and UN Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime.
