Background: It seems undeniable that the challenges we are currently facing at every level from global to national to local are, if not exactly unprecedented, certainly challenging on a level we have not previously experienced. Whether it is the impacts of climate change, political and geo-political uncertainty, infrastructure fragility, social unrest or a wide range of other increasingly frequent and increasingly disruptive if not destructive events, it feels as if the traditional frameworks that have supported our understanding of a rational world are crumbling. This discussion will look at the issues associated with strategic risk and crisis management in the current world and offer some thoughts on how we can model, prepare for and engage with those issues in meaningful ways.
Speaker:
Dr David Rubens, Executive Director of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities on strategic risk and crisis management in an age of wicked problems.
He completed his doctorate in 2015, is the author of the academic textbook ‘Strategic Risk and Crisis Management: A handbook for modelling and managing complex risks’ and works with multiple government agencies and global corporations in developing frameworks that are robust enough to manage the complex risks that they need to prepare for.
He is currently a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission and the UK Resilience Academy, as well as an advisor at government-level organisations in Ukraine, Middle East and SE Asia. Dr David Rubens was voted the IFSEC No 1 Global Security Thought Leader of 2019.
Date
Wednesday, 13 August 2025
Time
11:00 - 11:45 BST
Cost
Free
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