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Risk Management - teacher, practitioner and expert.

Atula Abeysekera is the Professor of Practice in Risk Management at Imperial College. He has advised the UK Government on managing Black Swan risks. He is a member of the Industry Steering Group for the UK Government specialising in risk and safety to drive forward the building safety programme recommended by Dame Judith Hackitt following the Grenfell tragedy. He also advises the UK Cabinet Office on improvements to risk culture and resilience. He has over 30 years of commercial experience at civil engineering and blue chip financial institutions. Over the last 11 years he has worked as a senior risk officer at Schroders plc, a FTSE 100 company. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Chartered Accountant. He has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London and Fellowship of the City and Guilds Institute. He is the current President of the City and Guilds College Association (‘CGCA’), which is the Alumnus Association of the Faculty of Engineering at Imperial College London. It has a membership of 3500 Imperial engineering alumni. He is author of the book “What’s the small idea”.

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contact: a.abeysekera@imperial.ac.uk