Öykü Isik, a Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity, is an expert on digital resilience and the ways in which disruptive technologies challenge our society and organizations. Named on the Thinkers50 Radar 2022 list of global thought leaders, she helps businesses to tackle cybersecurity, data privacy, and digital ethics challenges and enables CEOs and other executives to understand these issues. Isik leads IMD’s Cybersecurity Strategy and Risk program which helps businesses develop an action plan to identify, prepare for and respond to emerging and imminent cyber threats. Her work appeared in outlets such as MIT Sloan Management Review, European Business Review, and Information & Management among others. A computer scientist by training, Isik’s work before joining IMD in 2020 focused on business intelligence, analytics, technology, and business process management. She has lived and worked in higher education in Belgium, the United States, and Turkey before moving to Switzerland.
