Risk Awareness Week Faculty

Practitioners who define the agenda for global risk events — authors of the field's defining books, creators of the standards (ISO 31000, SIPmath, FAIR), and operators inside Chevron, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Allianz, LEGO and the LEGO Group's strategic risk programme.

Alex Sidorenko

Alex Sidorenko

Head of Risk, Insurance & Internal Audit, Serra Verde

FERMA 2021 Risk Manager of the Year; founder of RISK-ACADEMY

RAW editions: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

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Dr. Sam L. Savage

Dr. Sam L. Savage

Executive Director, ProbabilityManagement.org

Author of "The Flaw of Averages" and inventor of the SIPmath probability standard

RAW editions: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

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Norman Marks

Norman Marks

Author of "World-Class Risk Management"; retired CAE/CRO

Author of "World-Class Risk Management" and globally recognized GRC mentor

RAW editions: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

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Douglas Hubbard

Douglas Hubbard

Founder & President, Hubbard Decision Research

Creator of Applied Information Economics (AIE) and author of "How to Measure Anything"

RAW editions: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

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Michele Wucker

Michele Wucker

Founder & CEO, Gray Rhino & Company

Author of "The Gray Rhino" — RAW alumni speaker (RAW2022, RAW2023)

RAW editions: 2023, 2022

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Leo M. Tilman

Leo M. Tilman

Chairman & CEO, Agilion Systems

Co-author of "Agility" and "Financial Darwinism"; Forbes Business Visionary

RAW edition: 2025

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Grant Purdy

Grant Purdy

Director, Sufficient Certainty

Decision-centric risk management; co-author of ISO 31000

RAW editions: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019

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Hans Læssøe

Hans Læssøe

Founder, AKTUS

Founder of LEGO Group Strategic Risk Management; author of "Prepare to Dare"

RAW editions: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019

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David R. Koenig

David R. Koenig

President & CEO, The DCRO Institute

Author of "Governance Reimagined"; founder of DCRO and co-founder of PRMIA

RAW editions: 2024, 2022, 2021

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Geoff Trickey

Geoff Trickey

CEO, Psychological Consultancy Ltd (PCL)

Creator of the Risk Type Compass; Chartered Psychologist (UCL)

RAW editions: 2025, 2024, 2022

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Seven years of practitioners

Risk Awareness Week has run every year since 2019, drawing more than 20,000 risk professionals from 120+ countries. The faculty here are the recurring voices of that programme — full per-year line-ups (including practitioners from Chevron, Microsoft, NASA, the FAIR Institute, the LEGO Group strategic-risk team and hundreds more) are preserved on the archive subdomains.

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