2nd Annual Meeting

Listen to full interviews with some of our speakers:

• Michelle Tuveson on "The bigger picture"
• Andrew Freeman on "The economy of contingency planning"
• Professor Ed Bullmore on "The brain as a business model"
• Professor Haresh Shah on "Mitigating risk for those at the bottom of the pyramid"
• Dr Leslie Knapp on "Primate coalition formation"
• Professor Frank Kelly on "Raising the stakes"
• Alan Smith on "The difference between intelligence and wisdom"
• Dr John Coates on "Cognitive wherewithal"
• Dr Simon Singh on "Print and be damned! The libel debate rages"

Ms Michelle Tuveson is a Founder and Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies. She has worked in the technology sector for the majority of her career, with her most recent position at Lockheed Martin. Prior to that, she held positions with management strategy firm Booz Allen & Hamilton, and U.S. R&D organisation MITRE Corporation. She has been awarded by the Career Communications Group, Inc. as a Technology Star for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). She has degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University and is a member of Christ's College Cambridge.

Professor Danny Ralph is a Founder and Academic Director of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, and a Fellow of Churchill College. Danny received his PhD in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He was a faculty member of the Mathematics & Statistics Department at the University of Melbourne before coming to Cambridge University for a joint appointment in the Engineering Department and Cambridge Judge Business School. His research interests include optimisation methods, equilibrium models for electricity markets, and risk in business decision making. He is Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Programming (Series B).

Professor Geoff Meeks is Acting Director of Cambridge Judge Business School and Professor of Financial Accounting. Geoff's research interests include Financial reporting around major events in business finance (especially takeover, bankruptcy, IPO); creative accounting and accounting regulation; and corporate governance. Previously, Geoff has been employed by Price Waterhouse, the University of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge. He has held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, INSEAD and London School of Economics. He is a member of the Academic Panel of the Accounting Standards Board.

Professor Ed Bullmore studied medicine at the University of Oxford, & St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. As a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellow, he was awarded a PhD in statistical analysis of MRI data at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. In 1999, he was appointed Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Cambridge. Since 2005 he has been Clinical Director of the Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, and Vice-President, Experimental Medicine, for GlaxoSmithKline. He has more than 260 research publications, mainly on aspects of neuroimaging, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Dr David Good, Department of Social & Developmental Psychology, & King's College, University of Cambridge. Currently, he is working on how people interact with and through various new technologies, and the development of specific practical and professional skills. In late 2000, he established the Crucible Network with Dr Alan Blackwell, dedicated to interdisciplinary work in technology design with the specific goal of bringing together expertise from the Humanities and Social Sciences with that in Technology. Support for his current work includes funding from the Boeing, EPSRC, Department of Health, Technology Strategy Board, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Mark Gilbert is London Bureau Chief and a columnist on global capital markets for Bloomberg News, and has been with the company since 1991. Mark was born in Liverpool and graduated from Kings College, Cambridge in 1989 with a BA Hons in Philosophy. He was nominated as a finalist in the Commentary category of the UK 2006 Business Journalist of the Year awards, and holds a Malcolm Forbes Award for Best Business Story from the Overseas Press Club of America. Mark is the author of Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.

A former IBM PhD Research Fellow and Bateman Scholar, Dr Hardy has previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry, general practice and veterinary academia. His research looks at the bodily impact of social phenomena and social impact of bodily phenomena, the role of hormones in risk perception, morale in organisations, and linguistic ambiguity in management research. He is a former Chairman of the Association of Vets in Industry.

Andrew Freeman is the Executive Director of the Centre for Financial Services at Deloitte Services LLP and is responsible for the development of the Centre's research platforms and key activities. Andrew's focus is on building relationships with strategic clients and leading the development of Deloitte's intellectual capital on financial services industry issues. Before joining Deloitte, Andrew was a Senior Knowledge Expert in Risk at McKinsey & Company. Prior to that, Andrew was an award-winning financial journalist for more than two decades at The Economist and the Financial Times. He has authored several books and journal articles on Risk Management. He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford.

Professor Haresh Shah is the Chairman of the Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & Emeritus Obayashi Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. Haresh is currently the Chairman of the World Seismic Safety Initiative. He was a founder and Senior Advisor to RMS. He has served Stanford University in many capacities, including Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering and Founding Director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Centre. Haresh was awarded "The Top Earthquake Engineer of the 20th Century" given by the ATC and the Engineering News Record of USA.

Dr Leslie Knapp is a Reader in Primate Genetics and Behaviour in the Department of Biological Anthropology at the University Cambridge. Sheleads the Primate Immunogenetics and Molecular Ecology (PrIME) Research Group, focussing her research on the study of genes and genetic diversity in humans and non-human primates. She works with international collaborators in Asia, Africa and South America. She is a Fellow and College Lecturer in Biological Natural Sciences and Tutor at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Before moving to Cambridge, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and received her PhD from the University of Caifornia, Los Angeles.

D'Maris Coffman is the Director of the Winton Centre for Financial History & the Mary Bateson Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. Most of her current research is on the relationship between public finance and private capital markets in early modern and early late modern Europe. She manages the European State Finance Database. She received her MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and her BSc in Economics from theWharton School. She has offered courses to advanced undergraduates and graduate students at Penn and Cambridge in early modern public finance, economic thought, and the development of financial capitalism.

Cindy Levy is a Director based in McKinsey's London office. She leads the UK Financial Services and Risk Management Practices. Cindy works primarily for global banks and asset managers on the strategy, organisation and risk management agendas. She leads McKinsey's knowledge on risk topics such as risk culture, operational risk and risk organisation. Previously, Cindy worked for Goldman Sachs & Co in New York in Corporate Finance. During this period she analysed and executed a number of transactions including equity offerings, debt offerings and mergers. Cindy received an AB in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Richard Bronk is a writer and Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics with expertise in the history of ideas, philosophy of economics, comparative corporate governance and European political economy. He spent 17 years in the City of London - positions including head of European equities at Baring Asset Management, European equity strategist at Merrill Lynch, and Adviser on European capital markets and political economy at the Bank of England. Richard is author of Progress and the Invisible Hand - the Philosophy and Economics of Human Advance and The Romantic Economist - Imagination in Economics. He has an MA in Classics and Philosophy from Merton College, Oxford.

Andrew Freeman is the Executive Director of the Centre for Financial Services at Deloitte Services LLP and is responsible for the development of the Centre's research platforms and key activities. Andrew's focus is on building relationships with strategic clients and leading the development of Deloitte's intellectual capital on financial services industry issues. Before joining Deloitte, Andrew was a Senior Knowledge Expert in Risk at McKinsey & Company. Prior to that, Andrew was an award-winning financial journalist for more than two decades at The Economist and the Financial Times. He has authored several books and journal articles on Risk Management. He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford.

Alan Smith is Global Head of Risk Strategy within HSBC's Global Risk function. He is responsible for the Risk Appetite, ICAAP, Economic Capital, Scenario Stress Testing, and Risk Methodology infrastructures for the Group. He is a member of the Global Risk Management Board, the Capital Demand and Basel 2 Oversight Committees and chairs the Group Economic Capital and Scenario Stress Testing Committees. Prior to HSBC, Alan worked with KPMG London, latterly within its Financial Sector Advisory practice. Alan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales and has an MBA in Finance from Cass Business School, City University London.

Dr William H. Janeway is Senior Advisor at Warburg Pincus. He received his PhD in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University. Bill is a Director at Nuance Communications, O'Reilly Media, and Wall Street Systems and on the Board of Managers of Roubini Global Economics. He is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge, Co-Chair of Cambridge's 800th Anniversary Capital Campaign, and a Founder Member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).

Dr. Jonathan Grant is President of RAND Europe. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of London and has published extensively on health R&D policy, the use of research and evidence in policy making and population policy issues. He contributes to the implementation of the UK Department of Health's internationally acclaimed R&D strategy, "Best Research for Best Health". Jonathan led the UK's National Audit Office's examination into the use of research in policy making, "Getting the Evidence", and was principal investigator of an influential study sponsored by the European Commission looking at Europe's low fertility. He was formerly Head of Policy at the Wellcome Trust.

Dr Simon Singh is a TV director, author and science journalist. Having completed his PhD in particle Physics at the University of Cambridge, Simon joined the BBC's science department in 1990. He was a producer and director on programmes such as "Tomorrow's World" and "Horizon". His documentary about the world's most notorious mathematical problem was nominated for an Emmy and won a BAFTA. In 1997 he wrote Fermat's Last Theorem, which was the first maths book to become a no.1 bestseller in Britain and which has been translated into over 25 languages. He is also the author of The Code Book, Big Bang, and Trick or Treatment.

Dr Anna Dempster is a Senior Lecturer at the Sotheby's Institute of Art and the Dept of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2006 Anna was appointed Research Director of the Creative Industries Observatory at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts. She was the creative industries advisor for NESTA, DCMS, the Design Council and the Work Foundation. Anna has an MA and MPhil in History from Cambridge and a PhD in Strategy from Cambridge Judge Business School. She was a research fellow at the London Business School - Centre for the Network Economy and visiting professor at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Dr William J. Nuttall is a Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School. He has a leading role in the ESRC Electricity Policy Research Group and is a member of the new Cambridge Nuclear Energy Centre. He is the author of Nuclear Renaissance, published in 2005. Prior to coming to Cambridge, he worked at the Institute of Physics on a wide range of physics based policy issues after two post doctoral research positions using large physics facilities. He was founding Programme Director for the Cambridge-MIT Institute sponsored Master's degree in Technology Policy. Bill earned a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Fulbright Awardee. He is a Fellow of Hughes Hall, Cambridge.