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Dr. Rois Ni Thuama: Get into the game. [Cyber governance] [Career Notes]

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Head of Cyber Governance with Red Sift, Dr. Rois Ni Thuama shares the circuitous route of her career into cyber governance. She notes the route "looks really clean, but actually it was a bit more Jeremy Bearimy." While at Trinity College, Rois was moved to be part of history unfolding in South Africa and pause her studies. While there, she began making music videos and wildlife documentaries. Upon her return to London, Rois started working in corporate governance and risk at a music technology startup. This ignited her enthusiasm for startups. She now works in a company with several coworkers from that tech startup doing cyber governance. Rois advises law students of many ways into the industry including doing coding, learning risk management, and understanding privacy legislation, and then "just get into the game." We thank Rois for sharing her story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. Hi, my name is Dr. Roche-Me-Huma, and I am head of cyber governance with Redshift.

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My earliest recollection of knowing what I wanted to do was wanting to be a police officer or I wanted to be a detective.

1:31.8

Well, that's my earliest memory of a career. My other earliest memory is before I could read, I didn't understand what reading was. And my mom explained to me, she said, well, you know,

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if you write something down and then you leave a room, somebody else can come into a room,

1:46.0

and then they will know your idea. And that just blew my mind. And I thought that everybody

1:52.1

who could read must be amazing. And that once you knew how to read, you just wouldn't stop.

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I to read, you just wouldn't stop. I was born in England and we lived there till I was about seven.

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And then we moved to Ireland, which is where my parents are from.

2:13.9

It was pretty typically Irish, big families, lots of parties. I remember growing up and the parties

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being in the house and the best bit was wanting to sneak back down and listen to the adults

2:28.0

talking. That's something that I like about the environment that I get to work in now.

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I get to work and listen to really interesting people talking.

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