Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, is the main guest in an episode of Leading Questions podcast. He reflects on his long civil service career including stints at the Cabinet Office, GCHQ and latterly as the founding chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre.

From the show notes: "He considers the switch from central government into the intelligence agency; why “monolithic” leadership dictats from Whitehall were useless when working with technical specialists; the experience of publicly fronting the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack; and whether Northcote-Trevelyan still holds."

Leading Questions is a podcast by Global Government Forum in which civil service leaders share what they learned from their time at the top.