Dr David Hillson PMP FRSA FAPM FIRM FCMI

Dr David Hillson is an international risk management consultant and Director of Risk Doctor & Partners (www.risk-doctor.com), offering specialist risk management consultancy and training across the globe, at both strategic and tactical levels. His clients include major organisations in construction, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, transport, fast-moving consumer goods, energy, IT, defence and government.

With over fifteen years consulting experience, David is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in risk management, and he is a popular conference speaker and author on the subject. He has made a number of innovative contributions to the risk process which have been widely adopted. David is well-known for promoting inclusion of proactive opportunity management in the risk process. Recently he has been working on use of emotional literacy to understand and manage risk attitudes (see www.risk-attitude.com).

David Hillson has been active for many years in the global Project Management Institute (PMI®) and was a founder member of the PMI Risk SIG. He received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his sustained contribution to advancing the field of risk management. David is part of the core team responsible for updating the risk management chapter of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK®).

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 was a core member of the Project Risk Analysis & Management (PRAM) Guide team. He is also a Fellow of the UK Institute of Risk Management (IRM).

Prior to his consulting career, David Hillson was a project manager in a major UK engineering company, responsible for the successful delivery of a number of large, multi-million pound, real-time software-intensive projects. He is also a Fellow of both the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), reflecting his broad interest in topics beyond his own speciality of risk management.