About
Professor Buck Rogers - advisor to bank boards, senior executives and supervisors.
Founder of Poro Advisory and Professor of Cyber Security & Digital Innovation at the University of Gloucestershire. Former Chief Information Security Officer at the Bank of England and cyber expert to the International Monetary Fund. Buck helps banking leaders and supervisory authorities make better decisions about cyber risk, resilience and emerging technology - through clearer thinking, practical governance and trusted advice.
Buck's advisory focus is bank boards, senior executives, smaller regulated financial institutions and central banks/supervisors. His work connects cyber security, operational resilience, governance and AI to the decisions leaders must make and the evidence needed to support them.
His career has included serving as Chief Information Security Officer at the Bank of England, advising the International Monetary Fund as a cyber expert, and leadership roles at HSBC and BAE Systems, alongside fourteen years in the Royal Navy. Those experiences shaped how he thinks about mission readiness, leadership under pressure and the importance of making good decisions when information is incomplete.
He created the CBEST framework, helping establish intelligence-led testing as an international approach to strengthening the resilience of financial institutions.
Career highlights
Experience informing financial-sector oversight.
Bank of England · HSBC · BAE Systems
Senior leadership across financial services and defence — shaping how large, regulated organisations manage cyber and operational risk.
Former CISO, Bank of England
Led cyber security at the heart of the UK financial system, protecting the institutions that underpin it.
IMF cyber expert
Advises the International Monetary Fund on cyber resilience for central banks, supervisors and financial authorities worldwide.
Royal Navy — 14 years
Formative operational experience in mission readiness, leadership under pressure and decision-making with incomplete information.
Professor, University of Gloucestershire
Professor of Cyber Security & Digital Innovation — bridging academic thinking with practitioner insight to help leaders anticipate emerging risk.
Creator of the CBEST framework
Established intelligence-led testing as an international approach to strengthening the resilience of financial institutions.