Longer Professional CV
Biographical Note for
Dr David Hillson PMP FRSA FAPM FIRM FCMI
Director
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, with four 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. Recently he has been working on use of emotional literacy to understand and manage risk attitudes see (www.risk-attitude.com), and has developed a scaleable risk methodology (see www.ATOM-risk.com).
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).
David Hillson has been active for many years in the global Project Management Institute (PMI®), particularly in the PMI Risk SIG of which he was a Founder Member. In 2002 he was honoured with the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his sustained contribution to advancing the field of risk management. David has been among the most popular presenters for PMI Seminars World since 1999. He is part of the core team responsible for the risk management chapter of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK®) and is working on the PMI Project Risk Management Practice Standard. He is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP®), and advises PMI HQ on education policy as part of the Education Members Advisory Group.
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 the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), reflecting his broad interest in topics beyond his own speciality of risk management.
