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Airmic 2023: Julia Graham - risk managers are centre stage in a world of permacrisis
Are we in a state of polycrisis or permacrisis? Either way, it’s an interesting time to head up a risk management association. But Airmic CEO Julia Graham only sees this as an opportunity to spotlight the profession, tackling new and evolving risks with a spirit of collaboration.
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Franck Baron: why risk management needs a single professional standard
Risk managers across Asia needed a place to bond and so chairman Franck Baron founded PARIMA. Ten years on, he is passing on the reins, but his commitment to binding the industry together remains strong
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Leading the way on risk
On the eve of Airmic’s golden jubilee, its chief executive is a calming and commanding presence with a vision for the next 50 years
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Julia Graham
DLA Piper’s chief risk officer has much to thank for a great career: underwriting, the eurozone crisis and a rebellious streak at school
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Jorge Luzzi
The Pirelli risk manager and Ferma president shares his insights into the world of risk and the road to educational certification
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Guenter Droese
Deutsche Bank Group’s global head of corporate insurance is deeply worried about the industry’s shift in focus from relationships to price
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Managing risk in the fashion business: Sabrina Hartusch
There’s more to the lingerie industry than meets the eye and, as Triumph’s global head of insurance reveals, the key to successful risk management lies in communication
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John Keating
Faced with managing risk across an enormous and highly complex network, J Sainsbury’s head of insurance and risk management, John Keating, takes a straightforward approach. ’We just keep things simple,’ he says
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Cristina Martinez
We need to be less confident about our new intangible world, says the corporate director of risk at meat-processing multinational Campofrio
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Christoph Schwager
Risk? It’s fun, says the man in charge of risk management at EADS, one of the world’s riskiest companies
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Born ready
StrategicRISK’s European Risk Manager of the Year 2012 John Ludlow, of InterContinental Hotels, developed his risk management system while rescuing the Toby carvery chain. And it stood him in good stead through the unrest in Egypt during the Arab Spring
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Am I insured for that?
Effective risk management is not just about plants and buildings. There is also crime and other less predictable risks - such as product breakdown liability - to worry about, Scania’s Martin Sijmons believes
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Help the company to fly
Risk management takes on a new dimension when you operate 14 airports and airfields. Marie-Eve Albertelli of Aéroports de Paris says the art of risk management is in making sure all levels of a business communicate
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Europe’s risk leaders: follow in our footsteps
As we enter a new year, 10 leading risk management professionals reveal how they reached their current position and their thoughts on a career in risk management
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Lone ranger
Rogelio Bautista Guardeño was Spanish company Abengoa’s first risk manager. Now he’s one of the few in Europe to really evolve his role beyond buying insurance. Is it time the rest caught up?
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Forging ahead
Social imbalances will play a major part in future risk mitigation, GDF Suez deputy chief risk officer Michel Dennery believes, with ERM playing a critical role
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Here be dragons
At sea, there’s no hiding place from possible disaster. The head of risk at Electrolux, Lennart Edström, thanks his early years in the Merchant Navy for helping him keep business afloat today
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The long road
Paul Taylor’s risk management career has spanned nearly 40 years and has taken him across Europe, with some of the largest companies in big business. Who better, then, to take the reins as new Airmic chair?
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Well connected
Manufacturing and laying sub-sea cables is a complex, big-money business. Luckily for group risk manager Alessandro De Felice, Prysmian takes its risk management very seriously