Longer Professional CV

LONGER PROFESSIONAL CV

Biographical Note for
Dr David Hillson PMP FRSA HonFAPM FIRM FCMI
Director

Known globally as The Risk Doctor, 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 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, with five books. He has made a number of innovative contributions to the risk process 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). David is well-known for promoting inclusion of proactive opportunity management in the risk process. His recent work has focused on understanding and managing risk attitudes (see www.risk-attitude.com), and he has also developed a scaleable risk methodology (see www.ATOM-risk.com).

Dr Hillson was elected an Honorary 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 Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and active in several of its SIGs.

David Hillson has been active for many years in the global Project Management Institute (PMI®). He was a Founder Member of the PMI Risk SIG and was its Director of Technical Development from 2007-2009. David was honoured with the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his sustained contribution to advancing the field of risk management. He has been part of the core team responsible for the risk chapter of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK®) since 1998, and was on the core team for the PMI Project Risk Management Practice Standard (2009). David is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP®), and advised PMI HQ on education policy as part of the Education Members Advisory Group from 2001-2008. He also presented for PMI SeminarsWorld from 1999-2009.

Prior to developing a formal interest in risk management, 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 of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), reflecting his broad interest in topics beyond his own speciality of risk management.