Andrew Barnes is the founder and director of Andrew Barnes Consulting, advising organisations on crisis management, organisational resilience and strategic security in complex, high-risk and highly regulated environments.

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He retired from the Metropolitan Police Service in 2023 after more than 30 years’ service, culminating as Detective Chief Superintendent and Head of Intelligence for London policing. Across his career, he held senior leadership roles spanning serious and organised crime, counter-terrorism, public safety, command and control, crisis response and the coordination of major incidents and nationally significant events across London. He operated extensively within highly classified national security environments, working alongside UK Government, intelligence agencies and international partners.

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Andrew was among a small number of accredited senior officers authorised to lead multi-agency command teams during the most serious forms of terrorist attack, including marauding terrorist attack scenarios, and was accredited at Multi-Agency Gold Incident Command level.

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His experience also includes supporting and leading responses to serious incidents internationally, including operations conducted in hostile and high-risk environments to protect life and national interests.

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Since leaving policing, Andrew has worked across critical national infrastructure, government, transport and regulated financial sectors, helping organisations strengthen preparedness, leadership and decision-making under pressure. His work includes crisis management, command and control, organisational resilience, security maturity assessments, executive-level exercising, leadership development, and helping organisations strengthen cyber capability and respond to technology-enabled threats.

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Andrew specialises in helping organisations move from fragmented and reactive approaches towards more coherent, organisation-wide models of governance, threat and risk management, capability and assurance.

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He holds a Master of Science degree with Distinction in Leadership and Management from the Warwick Business School and is a member of the The Security Institute.