Mark Stokes is an experienced digital forensic expert, technology strategist, and former senior leader within the Metropolitan Police. With more than three decades of experience in digital forensics, telecommunications analysis, and forensic science, Mark Stokes helped transform digital evidence operations across the Metropolitan Police. His career has focused on forensic innovation, cyber investigations, expert witness testimony, and the development of national digital forensic standards.

Between 2008 and 2019, Mark Stokes served as head of the Digital, CyberCrime, and Communications Forensics Unit for the Metropolitan Police. In this role, he led large-scale digital forensic transformation initiatives that significantly changed how forensic evidence was recovered and processed across London. He developed and implemented a new operating model for digital forensics that introduced frontline forensic kiosks, regional forensic hubs, and centralized laboratory services connected through secure infrastructure. The project received more than £7 million in funding support and enabled frontline officers to process a substantial portion of digital forensic evidence without requiring specialist laboratory involvement.

In 2019, he joined Engineering & Forensic Services as CTO and director. Among other responsibilities, he conducts research in the field of digital forensics. He has also helped establish a chip laboratory focused on silicon-level security testing and reverse engineering in partnership with the University of East London.