Former police commissioner Khoo Boon Hui appointed advisor to Nasdaq-listed encryption tech firm

ENCRYPTION technology firm Arqit Quantum has appointed former police commissioner Khoo Boon Hui as an advisor with immediate effect, the company announced on Sunday (Jan 23).

In his new role, Khoo will bring a "wealth of experience and specialist insight into global cybersecurity, as well as high status in the Singapore market," said David Williams, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Arqit.

Khoo will join the Nasdaq-listed Arqit's advisory team while continuing to chair Interpol's Governance Working Group.

He remains a board member of the non-profit organisation Global Cyber Alliance and an advisor to the independent CyberPeace Institute. He is also a Senior Fellow of Singapore's Civil Service College, an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and a Justice of Peace.

Khoo was previously a commissioner on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a multistakeholder Internet governance organisation that operated from 2017 to 2019.

He served as the senior deputy secretary of Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry and was the police commissioner from 1997 to 2010. He later led Interpol from 2008 to 2012 as its president.

Khoo has also chaired international forums, including 3 US-Singapore homeland security dialogues and the biennial Milipol APAC security conference.

He said joining Arqit's "world-class team of quantum tech experts" is an "incredible honour".

"We share a great optimism about Arqit's offering and the progress they have already made towards driving critical conversations around cybersecurity imperatives on a global stage," Khoo said.

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