Gareth Shepherd
How do you Robustify Against Risk?

Gareth Shepherd leads the work bringing risk and investment insights into the World Economic Forum’s Davos programme. He is a co-author of its flagship Global Risks report and will speak about the major risks facing the world.

Gareth will raise the questions: what are the broad lessons from the financial crisis for investors, risk managers and decision makers? Why do rare events have such huge impacts? Why do forecasts (and forecasters) fail? How can systems and organisations be made more robust? How can decision makers navigate the pitfalls of biases and heuristics?

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Justin Urquhart Stewart

Surviving a Perfect Storm

Justin is one of the most recognisable and trusted financial commentators on UK television and radio. A director of Seven Investment Management, Justin will bring his own inimitable style to explain the global challenges posed by the global financial climate.

Justin will focus on what has happened, what might happen next and how financial services forgot risk management at the expense of investment management.

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Dan Norris

Adapting to Climate Change: Embedding Climate Risk in UK Organisations

We will all have to adapt to a changing climate, both globally and in the UK with increased
uncertainty about future weather patterns and extreme weather events. The UK Government
Minister with lead responsibility for domestic climate change adaptation, Dan Norris MP, will
address the conference on the work being undertaken by Government to prepare for the impacts of climate change and in particular how the new UK Climate Projections and Adapting to Climate Change Programme will help organisations deal with these challenges.

Ray Mattholie

Managing Supply Chain Risk – Finding the Weakest Link

Ray Mattholie, Fellow of IRM and previously chief risk officer for BT and for Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong, now leads his own risk consultancy. Ray will enlighten delegates on supply chain risk.

Threats to the supply chain feature in the top ten risks of most companies. Globalisation and the quest for ever more cost effective means of supply has greatly increased the complexity and reduced the knowledge and understanding of the exposures. The credit crunch and financial crisis significantly raises the risk of the failure of key suppliers.
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Ray’s talk will explain the nature of this multi faceted subject of supply chain risk, and explore how sound risk management practice can be applied to balance the optimisation of supply chain efficiency with the minimisation of supply chain risk.