Brett Lovegrove MA, FRSA, FSyI
Chief Executive, City Security & Resilience Network
Brett joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1978. After retiring as the Head of Counter Terrorism for the City of London Police in 2008, Brett is today the Chief Executive of the City Security and Resilience Networks (CSARN) covering the UK and Australia; Chairman of Paratum Ltd; Managing Director of Valentis Bridge Ltd and also a co-founder and Director at TriTectus Ltd. As Head of Counter Terrorism, he also had national responsibility for countering hostile reconnaissance within a successful and continuing public/private UK wide partnership called ‘Project Griffin.’ He commanded the business continuity and emergency planning teams and delivered strategic emergency response plans to national and international business and government sectors.
His companies address the full spectrum of counter terrorism, counter corporate espionage, business continuity, risk analysis, disaster recovery and emergency planning issues, featuring both nationally and internationally on defence and organisational solutions. He is the Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee in the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry; a Visiting Professor at the George C. Marshall Center (US Military Germany); a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; a Fellow of the Security Institute; and lectures at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy on UK resilience, recovery and crisis leadership.
In 2017, Brett delivered keynote presentations to global corporate companies on crisis leadership across every city in Australia on behalf of the Risk Management Institution of Australasia.
He trained as a Gold Commander to respond to Firearms, CBRN, Siege and Public Order incidents as well as operationally controlling covert human intelligence sources. As a senior investigating officer at New Scotland Yard, he applied his command training in co-ordinating assets to detect offences committed by paedophiles and bring them to justice.
As a senior lecturer for the US Military (George C. Marshall Center, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, 2008-2015), Brett led teams of US military personnel delivering strategic level emergency and disaster training to globally based government and military representatives. The subject matter included crisis leadership, military support to civil powers, national-level recovery plans for man-made and natural disasters, command and control structures, national rescue best practice and countering terrorist, activist and cyber attacks.
Today, he is frequently asked to advise international corporate organisations and governments on defence and resilience strategies, including the US Congress, the US Department of State and House of Representatives, the European Government in The Hague, the sovereign State of Georgia (OSCE mission), and The Sovereign State of Lithuania (OSCE mission). He has worked with the National Counter Terrorism Board in the Netherlands and briefed the Danish and Croatian Parliaments. Brett was part of the first international delegation into Mumbai after the attacks there in November 2008 and co-wrote the White Paper for the Indian Government mapping the development of more effective and joined up corporate, emergency services, security, disaster recovery and resilience response.
