Christos Makedonas, CIPP/E, CCFP, CEH, CFIP, CISA, CMI, CSIS, ECSA, CBA, MSc. Christos Makedonas is the Managing Director of Grant Thornton (Cyprus) Cybersecurity Ltd. Christos has lead projects around Data Privacy and Data Protection for financial institutions, insurance companies, healthcare providers, service providers / retailers. He has also been involved and led projects in multiple areas and disciplines such as Cyber Security, Data Privacy and Data Protection, Discovery & Digital Forensics, Third-party Assurance, Internal and External IT Audit, Internal Control Design and Evaluation, Risk, Regulatory & Compliance, Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery, Business & Operational and Information Risk Management and Strategy, CAATs, and IT Governance. Christos has successfully obtained a variety of specialised professional qualifications and also has a Banking Operations Diploma, a BSc in Computing Informatics from the University of Plymouth and a MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems (Focus in Information Security) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).