Abby Sonnier is a Senior Consultant in the Strategic Communications segment of FTI Consulting and is based in London, UK.
She is part of the segment’s crisis communications practice specialising in cybersecurity and data privacy crises where she works with organizations amid cyber crises to respond to the incident in a way that protects their reputation, avoids additional legal or financial fallout, and builds trust. She has worked with organisations across a broad range of sectors, sizes, and geographies. Prior to FTI Consulting, Abby was a Cybersecurity Analyst at Consortium Networks where she led all compliance-driven advisory projects across a broad range of sectors. Abby has spent time in the media and journalism space while at the Bologna Institute for Policy Research, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and The Cipher Brief, a national security media organization, where she helped launch its Cyber Initiatives Group. Abby holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies where she studied cybersecurity and data privacy in the Mediterranean and the United States. Abby also holds a B.A. in Public Policy and Leadership from the University of Mississippi.