All innovations impact trade-off between risk and return. Policymakers can learn from how small businesses innovate and manage risks during tough market conditions. To manage risks, the Government should learn from successful commercial risk management techniques before implementing innovative policies.

This website explains how innovation and risk management can work together to run a smarter Government. If this does not happen, the UK may never balance its books and get to grips with its finances.

Guest Lectures:

• Business risk management – lectures to MEng programme at Imperial College, London
• View from the Boardroom – Risk Appetite lecture at The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) Non-Executive Directors Group
• Risk Forum – Deputy Chairman, Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments