Maggie Moore Email & Phone Number

Maggie is an experienced public servant, leading teams in government focused on personnel security and mitigating insider risk in the national security sector. She is a leading advocate within her organisation for the use of emerging tech and data to meet growing cyber and personnel risk from adversary states whilst not losing sight of the human factor.A qualified cordon bleu chef, earlier in her working life Maggie founded a small high-end catering company focused on the City of London. Like many founders, she discovered that passion without commercial viability merely gives you an expensive hobby!More successfully, Maggie co-founded, with a Turkish partner, the first guide dog association in Turkey, ably assisted by her then guide dog, Star. Everything needed to be done from scratch from seeking start-up and follow on funding, through sourcing the puppies, finding trainers outside Turkey and allocating blind partners for the dogs. Maggie became an expert in advocacy, using her fluent Turkish in frequent TV and media appearances to gain acceptance for guide dogs in Turkish society and increase accessibility for them and their partners. She was recognised for her efforts by being named by UK Guide Dogs Association as Most InspiringGuide Dog Owner of the Year in 2018 and appeared on BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 4’s “In Touch” programmes.Maggie, who lost her sight to juvenile macular degeneration aged 10, is focused on the “ability” in “disability”, dispelling myths about the limitations of disabled people through her advocacy and by her example. A graduate of Sussex University in linguistics and French, the mother of two adult children, accomplished chef (see above!), producer/director of amateur plays and pantos, English teacher on Vietnamese TV, intrepid traveller (living in Turkey twice, the United States, Vietnam, Pakistan and Malaysia) and national security professional. Maggie lives in Soho and Surrey with her husband and guide dog, Link.

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  University Of Sussex

  Linguistics With French