Speakers

Dr Hugo Rosemont is Director of Government Affairs at BMNT Ltd; a small advisory company charged with helping government develop and acquire new, mission-critical capabilities faster and more efficiently. 

Outside BMNT, Hugo holds several academic and industrial positions in addition to his support for ISE through its Advisory Council. In February 2025, he was appointed Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). In January 2024, following a long association with the alliance, he was appointed as Vice Chair of the UK Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers’ Community (RISC), in which capacity he served as Acting Chair throughout 2025. He has held the position of Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Defence (CDS) within the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, since March 2017.

Previously, Hugo served between 2022-24 as an original member of the Police Science Council formed under the auspices of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). He has held positions as a Principal for Defence, National Security and Public Safety Policy at Amazon Web Services; Director of Policy and Public Affairs at KBR Inc.; Director - Security and Resilience at the ADS group, the UK’s premier trade organisation for the Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space industries; Policy Adviser on Crime and Security issues at the British Retail Consortium; and as Teaching Fellow and Assistant Director at CDS. Earlier in his career, Hugo served at ADS for the first time as a Policy Adviser, and as Security Executive at the winning London 2012 Olympic bid team.

Hugo was awarded his PhD from King's in April 2015 with a thesis that reassessed the origins, characteristics and consequences of the private sector’s involvement in the UK counter-terrorism strategy after 9/11. He also holds Masters degrees in European Politics from London Birkbeck University and International Security Studies from the University of St Andrews, for which he was awarded a distinction in 2006.