Emerging Scholar Rachel Babins, a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at a major Canadian bank, who presented her paper at the last Defence and Security Foresight Group Conference.

Rachel Babins is a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at a major Canadian bank. In 2019, she received her MA at the University of Toronto in European and Russian Studies. Her masters research focused on Russian threats to Canadian critical infrastructure in the energy sector. She also specialized in disinformation research by conducting a year-long project that analyzed Russian state-sponsored disinformation campaigns targeting NATO during Operation Enhanced Forward Presence. Rachel has held positions at Natural Resources Canada, where she focused on nuclear security and at NATO with the Allied Joint Force Command in Brunssum.