Instructor: Dr David Hillson, PMP

Dr David Hillson is an international risk management consultant and Director of Risk Doctor & Partners offering specialist risk management consultancy and training. He has wide personal experience in supporting major UK and international projects across a range of industries. He also provides specialist risk management training in the UK, Europe and US. His clients include major organizations in construction, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, transport, energy, IT, defense and government.

Over a period of nearly fifteen years consulting, David has become recognized internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in risk management, and he is a popular conference speaker and author on the subject, winning several awards for his papers. His specialty is risk technology transfer, assisting organizations to develop effective in-house risk processes. He has developed a number of innovative approaches to identifying, assessing and managing risk, which have been widely adopted. These include the Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) to provide a framework for the risk process, risk metalanguage to ensure accurate risk identification, the “mirror” Probability-Impact Matrix for assessing both threats and opportunities, defined response strategies for focusing action, maturity-model frameworks for benchmarking risk management capability, and criteria for defining a professional approach to risk management (the Risk Management Professionalism Manifesto). Most recently David has been working on inclusion of proactive opportunity management in the risk process, and this is the subject of his latest book.

Dr Hillson was elected a Fellow of the UK Association for Project Management (APM) in recognition of his contribution to developing the discipline of risk management. He is past Chairman of the APM Specific Interest Group (SIG) on Risk Management, and is a core member of the team updating the Project Risk Analysis & Management (PRAM) Guide. He is also a Fellow of the UK Institute of Risk Management (IRM), and is an active member of the International Council On Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Risk Management Working Group.

David Hillson has been active for many years in the global Project Management Institute (PMIR), particularly in the PMI Risk SIG of which he was a Founder Member. In 2002 he was honoured with the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his sustained contribution to advancing the field of risk management. David has been among the most popular presenters for PMI Seminars World since 1999. He is part of the core team responsible for updating the risk management chapter of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoKR). He is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMPR), and advises PMI HQ on education policy as part of the Education Members Advisory Group.

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