Paul Raines is the Chief Information Security Officer for the United Nations Development Programme.  In that capacity he is responsible for managing the cyber-security and disaster recovery planning for the Organisation’s 177 locations around the world.  His unit is the first and only United Nations unit to be  ISO 9001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certified.  His information security unit has won international awards for outstanding performance including an Honors Laureate award from Computer World magazine in 2013 and a 6 time winner of the CSO50 award from CSO magazine—more than any other organisation since the award was established.  The CSO award honors the top 50 cybersecurity organisations in the world for business value and thought leadership.  In 2020 his unit won a Future Edge 50 award from CIO magazine for technological innovation in developing an incident response and threat hunting platform. Finally, Computer World magazine has twice selected Mr. Raines for its Premier 100 award for being among the 100 most influential IT leaders in the world.  

Prior to UNDP, Mr. Raines worked for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) where he, as well as other members of the organisation, was a joint recipient the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.  Prior to working for the United Nations he was the Chief Informations Security Officer for Bloomberg LP, Barclays Capital and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  For relaxation he enjoys opera, Shakespearean plays, French wine and sometimes just sitting in a cafe with an espresso and pain au chocolat reading a good book on Roman history.