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The Security Institute’s

Annual General Meeting

2021

It is was a great pleasure to host our first-ever digital Annual General Meeting (AGM) this year on 21st
April, after not being able to hold an AGM in 2020 due to what was then the newly emerging Covid-19
pandemic. The over 200 Institute members in attendance were joined by the Chair, Board of Directors,
the HQ team as well as the Institute’s President Baroness Ruth Henig. This year’s AGM was the first
with Peter Lavery FSyI as the acting Chair, and Mahbubul Islam CSyP MSyI as the newly appointed
Deputy Chair.

The AGM was the first Institute event hosted on the Remo platform, a new virtual networking platform
that members will have the opportunity to use again at several other virtual Institute events in the
near future. For those that missed the AGM a recording of the presentations can be found here:
https://security-institute.org/general-meetings-accounts/

An Update after an eventful
2020

There are always a lot of developments to
share with the Institute membership, but
this year there was an exceptional amount
of news to cram into the AGM.
Peter Lavery started his report by
acknowledging the challenges and great
losses experienced during 2020, as well
as paying tribute to the essential role
that security professionals have played
during this past year and the sacrifices
that many have made. Peter highlighted
how the Institute has continued to support
security professionals through the pandemic, and as a result has seen unprecedented levels of both
membership growth and engagement. In addition, more organisations have invested in their teams
with growing numbers of Corporate Partners as well as Group Memberships, many of which are in the
Government Security Profession.
Peter also thanked Professor Alison Wakefield PhD CSyP FSyI for all of her contributions during her
time as Chair and on the Board of Directors, and congratulated her on a successful final year as Chair.
The AGM also covered the collaboration work undertaken by the the Security Institute with other
security sector organisations in 2020 and into 2021. This has included working alongside the BSIA, the
City Security Council, SIA, Security Commonwealth and others with the perceptions campaign: ‘Hidden
Workforce’. Another significant area of collaboration that the Institute has contributed towards in
2020 was the formation of the Cyber Security Council as part of the Cyber Security Alliance, which
successfully launched on 1st April 2021.

This is in addition to the partnership launched with the EY Foundation, which saw the launch of the
Institute’s ‘Secure Futures’ programme which was discussed at length by Paul Barnard CSyP MSyI.
We were pleased to be joined by the Co-Chairs of the Inclusive Security SIG, Anna-Liisa Tampuu
ASyI and Lisa Reilly MSyI, as well as the Co-Chairs of the Counter Terrorism SIG, Steve McGrath MSyI
and Andrew Donaldson MSyI. They provided an update on this two areas of significant development
within the Institute.

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