Alan Waring holds a PhD from Westminster University. For over 30 years, he was an international risk management consultant on a range of corporate, strategic and operational risk issues to government departments, institutions, and large corporations, in many countries. He has held academic roles at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy at Hong Kong Baptist University, and the European University Cyprus. His books include Managing Risk (1998), Corporate Risk and Governance (2013), and Practical Systems Thinking (1996).