Speakers

Nick Aldworth has had a 40 year career in protective security and counter-terrorism. He has been responsible for protecting NATO installations, co-ordinating armed protection for VIPs, undertaking counter-terrorism search operations and leading armed response teams. 

In 2015, Nick was appointed head of counter-terrorism protective security operations for London, leading multi-disciplinary teams in responding to terrorist attacks in the UK and overseas until 2018 when he was appointed UK counter-terrorism national coordinator.

As well as supporting inquests and reviews into the 2017 attacks, he was a member of the National Security Council's threats and risks committee.

Since 2019, he has worked in the private sector, currently as Director of Counter Terrorism, Intelligence and Risk with Carlisle Support Services Group.

In February 2019, Nick was the architect of the proposal for a UK Protect Duty, which has become the Counter-Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill, known more popularly as Martyn's Law and dedicates most of his resources and time to promoting the Martyn's Law campaign through the not-for-profit business he set up in 2019.

In 2022, his company funded and conducted two medical aid missions to south-east Ukraine.

Nick regularly speaks alongside victims of terrorism to explain Martyn's Law and has spoken to hundreds-of-thousands of people through presentations and mass-media appearances.