DR LYNN DRENNAN has taught at Glasgow Caledonian University since 1987 and has been head of its division of risk since 1998

A former member of ALARM Council, she has been the external examiner for the Institute of Risk Management since 1997 and is a member of the board of the Scottish Continuity Group, and of the Professional Standards board of the Chartered Insurance Institute. Since 2003 she has also served as executive director of the Centre for Risk and Governance (CRaG). Her research interests and publications are primarily in the areas of corporate risk management, corporate governance, business ethics and reputation risk. She is a frequent presenter at national and international risk management conferences and in 2002 was invited to be the conference moderator at the ARIMA annual conference in Australia.

DR JEREMY HODGE was appointed director of research at BRE in 2002 and is responsible for research strategy and collaboration, and the insurance/certification interface. Following a chemistry doctorate at Oxford University, he worked in the oil industry, before joining LPC, the UK insurance industry's technical organisation. Here he was responsible for research and advisory work for the Association of British Insurers and Lloyd's on issues including fire, security, natural hazards, construction, process industry, environment, health and motor. Following LPC's merger with BRE, he was managing director of fire and risk sciences division before taking on his current role.

DAVID MCINTOSH is the senior partner of Davies Arnold Cooper, head of its environmental, health and safety group, a non-executive director of Markel Underwriting Agency and Markel International Ltd, and a past president of The Law Society of England and Wales. He has considerable experience in commercial litigation including fraud investigations with international dimensions. He also has an extensive background in product (including pharmaceutical) employers' and public liability and media-orchestrated group actions. He regularly advises multinationals and UK corporations, insurers and reinsurers on liability, risk exposure and control, and is a Notre Dame Law School accredited mediator in alternative dispute resolution.

IAN DREWER, director of risk management with Sea Containers Ltd, has held senior risk management positions in the pharmaceutical and telecommunications industries and was a visiting lecturer in risk management at City University Business School, London, from 1998 to 2001. He joined the Sea Containers Group of companies in 1993. The company floated its Orient-Express subsidiary in 2000 and he continues to hold responsibility for risk management advice and consultancy to the now independent hotel and leisure business.

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