
Doug Witschi
Assistant Director Cybercrime Treat Response,
INTERPOL
A career police professional who has undertaken criminal investigations and operations at State, Federal, and International level. Doug has experience and expertise in: • Cybercrime • Counter Terrorism • specialist investigations, including Homicide and task force policing • Senior leadership roles taking responsibility for large organisational change programs; transnational criminal and intelligence investigations, and covert policing operations. A seconded police officer from the Australian Federal Police to INTERPOL, in January 2020 he was tasked to establish and lead a new operational capability for INTERPOL known as Cybercrime Threat Response, building on the Cyber Fusion Centre transforming it to a threat response capability in partnership with Global Cyber partners of INTERPOL. During the COVID pandemic the capability identified, coordinated and responded to Cyber threats linked to Ransomware attacks against National health systems as well as many others. A global voice for law enforcement on cybercrime, Doug works with a broad range of organisations across the 195 member countries of INTERPOL to disrupt cyber threats and target threat actors harming our global communities. When not working he is a passionate sailor, scuba diver and volunteers in marine programs to protect our oceans.
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