Alan Waring holds a PhD from Westminster University jointly with Aston Business School. He is an international risk management consultant on a range of corporate, strategic and operational risk issues to government departments, institutions and large corporations, with more than 80 assignments in 14 countries. He has held academic roles at Tsinghua University, Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy, HK Baptist University, and European University Cyprus. His books include Managing Risk (1998), Corporate Risk and Governance (2013), and Practical Systems Thinking (1996) and he is a contributor to the Risk Watch column in Financial Mirror since 2004.