Mimoent Haddouti worked at Rabobank within the IT domain for 22 years from 2001. There, among other things, she has been in charge of the Cyber Defence Centre (SOC) and IT Continuity, leading various departments, in particular fulfilling cyber security and continuity roles within the IT infrastructure. In 2018, her role was further expanded to include global tactical and strategic responsibilities around Cyber Security, Business Continuity Management and Risk Management and fulfilled this role as Global Head First Line Risk & Security and Global CISO until November 2023. From these roles, she has received several awards such as EZVN Businesswoman 2016, the Digital Leadership & Diversity Award 2017, Goldcrest 2018 and became Global CISO in 2022. Since November 2023, Mimoent made the move to PwC, where she joined the Cyber Security, Privacy & Forensics team as a partner.
As chair of Rabobank's global crisis team, she was involved in managing the COVID-19 crisis and also several major cyber events that could potentially impact the financial sector or Rabobank.
Besides her active career, Mimoent is also actively working for a better society in the context of diversity, equality of opportunity and actively raising overall awareness of cyber security and cyber crime. Mimoent is co-founder and board member of the Power4Talent foundation, in which MBO students are given a helping hand towards the labour market. As a member of the Advisory Board of the HackShield Future Cyber Heroes foundation, she contributes to a safer digital world for 8- to 12-year-old children. In addition, Mimoent was, and still is, a member of the Supervisory Board of housing cooperative Water Weg Wonen, Wigo4IT, MBO Rijnland, a member of the Advisory Board of KleurrijkRabo, a member of the Cultural Advisory Board of Vrije Universiteit and joined as a member of ECP, the Platform for the Information Society. An independent platform for actively sharing and advising government, science, business and education for a reliable, promising and resilient digital society.
Besides her education in Dutch Law, Mimoent has done substantive training in Lean Management, Cyber Security and Risk Management. Mimoent has also completed several executive leadership & board programmes at Harvard Business School, Nyenrode and IMD Switzerland.