Biography
Will Lyne is currently the Head of Intelligence at the National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU), leading a range of multidisciplinary teams that lead, support and coordinate the Law Enforcement cybercrime response in the UK. He has worked in Law Enforcement for over 14 years. From 2011 to 2013, he worked in Afghanistan delivering counter narcotics investigations with local, military and international partners, before joining the NCCU in 2013. From 2016 to 2020, he was a Liaison Officer assigned to the FBI’s Cyber Division in Washington D.C., USA.
Will is an experienced and internationally respected leader in the field of serious and organised online investigations, leading on a number of high-profile cases covering money laundering, fraud, kidnap & extortion and computer misuse. He is a 2008 graduate of University College London (BSc) and a 2018 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (MA).
Research
Will is a part-time student and his PhD thesis is, “Ransom here, there and everywhere”: Assessing the United Kingdom Response against the Ransomware Threat.
