Chairman

Richard Anderson BSc (Econ), FCA, FIRM

Managing Director

Crowe Horwath Global Risk Consulting

Richard is the Managing Director of Crowe Horwath Global Risk Consulting in the UK. A Chartered Accountant, he is a former partner at PwC where he led the Strategic Risk Services practice in EMEA. . He has spent seven of the last ten years as a self-employed governance and risk management advisor to boards, and the rest of the time he has worked for a variety of organisations. He has a particular interest in matters relating to ERM and how that fits with Corporate Governance, and wrote a report on Corporate Risk Management which addresses these topics for the OECD. He is chairman of IRM's Thought Leadership panel and a member of the BSi committee that produced BS31100.

Executive Director
Steve Fowler MA, FIRM, FRSA, FCII, FIAM, CMIOSH

Steve was appointed CEO of the Institute of Risk Management in 2002. After graduating in chemistry from Oxford University, Steve joined the insurer Sun Alliance as a risk engineer. Ten years later, Steve set up the company’s business systems function. Leading the merger with Royal Insurance for the multinational business followed, then promotion to Commercial IT Director where Steve pioneered a unique business-led approach. Steve is a Fellow of the IRM, the Chartered Insurance Institute, the Royal Society of Arts and a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.
His interests include the development of professionalism in risk management, learning from the past and the importance of people, communication and culture. Steve is a prolific writer and speaker on risk and change issues. Steve’s other interests include mountains, sailing, and growing things.

Deputy Chair

Chris Charman ACII ACIArb FIRM

Chris started his career as a Royal Navy Officer and after leaving the Navy in 1981 worked as a loss adjuster in London, Hong Kong, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, travelling through most of the Asia Pacific region. He moved to risk management and loss prevention in 1997, working for CURM in Singapore, returning to the UK as Managing Director in 1999 and overseeing the acquisition of the business by Thomas Miller. In 2007 he moved to HSBC to develop their global captive business. Since Marsh took over the HSBC client base, Chris has been doing consultancy work for Hays, IRM and private captive clients.

Deputy Chair

Alyson Pepperill FIRM ACII

Client Projects Director

Oval Insurance Broking Ltd

Alyson studied and passed her AIRM back in 2000 and has been involved with the IRM since this time. She has 25 years in the risk and insurance industry and works for Oval Insurance Broking Ltd. These years have involved working for brokers and insurers and Alyson has a wide range of knowledge spanning large corporate firms, international business, and has been involved with the charity sector since 1995. Alyson is committed to her work as a Director of the IRM and speaks at various events for both Oval and the IRM.

Alex Hindson MEng (Hons) MSc Ceng FIChemE FIRM AIEMA

Head of Group Risk

Amlin plc

Alex Hindson is the Head of Group Risk at Amlin plc. Amlin plc is a leading independent insurer operating in the Lloyd’s, UK, Continental European and Bermudian markets. He is responsible for the implementation of an enterprise risk management programme incorporating risk and governance to support the business's Solvency II implementation. Alex has previously been Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Aon, leading an ERM consulting practice and before that Risk Services Manager at AstraZeneca plc where he led the implementation of ERM and BCM across the group. He is originally a chemical engineer and is a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management where he is currently Chairman and Lead Examiner for the Risk Solutions module of the international Diploma programme.

Professor Chris Brady

Chris is Dean of top professional business training and education company BPP Business School. He joined BPP in 2008 from Bournemouth University Business School and before that was Head of External Relations and Business Development and Associate Dean at Cass Business School. He has had a varied and illustrious career including 16 years in the Royal Navy, semi-professional football and authorship of management books.

Charles Clayton MIRM

Charles Clayton has a background of senior risk and finance appointments in industry, having set up the risk and internal audit function at Compass Group in 2003 and then moving to Kingfisher Group where he was Group Head of Audit and Risk Management from 2007 to 2009.

Colette Dark BSc (Hons) MBA CFIOSH MIRM

Director of Risk Control

Colette has been a member of IRM since the late 1990’s and has always had an active involvement in its educational and training activities. As a member of the training committee she acted as project manager in developing the ‘Managing Risk’ course. Her efforts were recognised with the presentation of the Chairman’s award for services to the IRM. More recently Colette authored the ‘Management of Risk and Uncertainty’ training material and as chair of the training committee she was responsible for developing the training course accreditation process in place today.

Pesh Framjee

Partner - Head of Non-Profits

Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP

Pesh has been involved in the not-for-profit sector, both professionally and as a volunteer, for over 30 years with hands on experience of governance, regulation, risk management, strategy, performance measurement and knowledge management. He leads the not-for-profit unit at Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP and is a member of the Charity Law Association.

Paul May LLB (Hons), MBA, FCII, FCILA, FIRM, AdipC, DipAIS, MCIArb, ACLA, FCMI, MAE, FUEDI-ELAE, AMIMC, FIFAA, FinstD

Chairman

Concordia Consultancy Ltd

During the last 30 years Paul has held director roles in a number of private companies, professional associations and a UK publicly listed PLC. Within the IRM he has chaired the International Committee, contributed to regional groups, international strategy and spoken at events including a risk management conference in Abuja, Nigeria.

José Morago CFA

European Head of Risk

Aviva

José is the European Enterprise Risk Director for Aviva, where he is responsible for risk oversight, governance and capital management of Aviva’s European operations in 12 countries. He is also responsible for Aviva’s Solvency II (Pillar 2) at European level.

José brings extensive international experience in insurance, banking and management consulting. Prior to Aviva, José was Chief Risk Officer for Groupama Insurance. He has also played senior roles for McKinsey & Company, Moody's Investor Service, Liberty Mutual and Banco Santander.

José holds a MBA from Instituto de Empresa (Madrid), a Master of Science in Finance from Boston College, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from University of Castilla-La Mancha (Albacete, Spain). José is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter-holder and IRM member.

Brad Simpson ACII FIRM

Senior Vice President
Marsh

Brad has been a member of the Institute for over eight years and in that time have worked, in a voluntary capacity, for the Institute in a number of roles. For the period 2006 to 2009 he was a member of the organising committee for the Forum, including chairing the committee for the organisation of the 2008 and 2009 Forums. Today he is an examiner for the Institutes diploma qualification, having qualified as Member in 2006 and achieved Fellowship status in 2009. He is also a member of IRM’s Governance Committee.

Arnout Van der Veer MIRM

Chief Risk Officer

Reed Elsevier

Arnout has over 25 years of management, risk management, consultancy and audit experience, having been Chief Risk Officer at information group Reed Elsevier since 2001 and before that Head of Internal Audit at KLM and an audit partner at KPMG in New York and Amsterdam. He was recently named ‘European Risk Manager of the Year 2010’ by Strategic Risk magazine.