DAVID HILLSON'S CV (FULL)

Biographical Note for
Dr David Hillson CMgr FRSA HonFAPM FIRM FCMI PMI-Fellow PMP
Director

Known globally as The Risk Doctor, Dr David Hillson is an international risk management consultant and Director of Risk Doctor & Partners, offering specialist risk management consultancy and training across the globe, at both strategic and tactical levels. He has worked in over 40 countries and his clients include major organisations in construction, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, transport, fast-moving consumer goods, energy, IT, defence and government.

With twenty-five years of risk 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 written eight books on risk, and contributed to several others, as well as writing many papers, articles and briefings. 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. His recent work has focused on using emotional literacy to manage risk attitudes (see www.risk-attitude.com), and he has also developed a scaleable project risk methodology (www.ATOM-risk.com).

Dr Hillson was elected an Honorary Fellow of the UK Association for Project Management (APM) in 2008 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 co-editor and core author for the Project Risk Analysis & Management (PRAM) Guide. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and active in several of its SIGs.

David Hillson is an active contributor to the global Project Management Institute (PMI®). He was honoured with the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 2002 and elected a PMI Fellow in 2010, both to recognise his sustained contribution to advancing the field of risk management. David was a Founder Member and Director of the PMI Risk SIG and is currently a leader in the PMI Risk Community of Practice. He has contributed to the risk chapter of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK®) since 1998, and he was a core author of PMI's Practice Standard for Project Risk Management (2009). David advised PMI HQ on education policy as part of the Education Members Advisory Group from 2001-2008, and presented risk seminars for PMI SeminarsWorld from 1999-2009.

David was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2007 to contribute to its Risk Commission. He is currently leading the RSA Fellows project on societal attitudes to failure, and is editor of The Failure Files. He is also a Chartered Manager and Fellow with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), reflecting his broad interest in topics beyond his own speciality of risk management.