Maria Milosavljevic

As Global Chief Information Security Officer for ANZ, Dr Maria Milosavljevic drives the Enterprise Cyber Security Strategy to counter evolving threats, conform to regulation, and enable the bank’s digital transformation. She is responsible for Cyber Security Operations (detection and protection), data security, advisory, architecture, policy, standards and education programs. This includes a sophisticated, global 24/7 in-house security operations centre (SOC) and threat intelligence capability, dedicated enterprise security metrics, and integrated delivery of new security capabilities. Maria oversees cyber security delivery across many other parts of the organisation, ensuring aligned and coordinated protection of customers, infrastructure and data. This model of shared ownership and governance ensures the protection of around 10 million individual and business customers and operations in more than 30 markets. Prior to joining ANZ in August 2023, Maria worked at the Australian Department of Defence where she was the inaugural Chief Data Integration Officer, responsible for defining and implementing the organisation’s data and analytics transformation journey. She was responsible for creating new and innovative approaches to leveraging data for better outcomes, ensuring that this was done in a privacy preserving and ethical manner, and that innovative solutions were properly scaled and sustained within the organisation’s very complex and large global infrastructure. Maria is an Honorary Professor of AI at the Australian National University. She completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence with the Microsoft Research Institute, graduated from ANU with an Executive Master of Public Administration from ANZSOG, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.