International security
Humanitarian and crisis issues
Refugees and Migration
Cities
Disinformation - risk management
Intelligence
Terrorism
The Soufan Center
Jane’s Intelligence Review
International Rescue Committee
International Crisis Group
Global Interagency Security Forum
IHS Markit
Western Hemisphere Drug Commission
I worked for fifteen years in a variety of contexts from advising corporate leaders around security issues, through to the IMF’s Security Team embedded through Control Risks, the Emergency Unit at the IRC, and several large consultancies including Janusian, the political and security risk specialist of The Risk Advisory Group, and Veracity Wordwide. After a decade living in the US, I returned to the UK in mid 2022, focusing on developing my skillset on ways to combat emerging risks, innovative approaches to crisis management and more strategic risk management.
My book Crisis Readiness is available for purchase on Amazon and received reviews from several leading experts within the insurance, corporate security and climate risk management space.
These articles are a few thought leadership pieces which have accompanied some of the other work I have done over recent years and is rarely updated as I am now focused on consultancy and risk management work.
The majority of my articles are categorised in the article section of the following page. But a selection of higher-profile pieces are detailed below.
I was fortunate enough to be asked to write Chapter 5 for the Western Hemisphere Drug Commission, which went to the US Congress on December 1 2020: https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2020/12/engel-releases-western-hemisphere-drug-policy-commission-report
My company website is www.nextgenrisk.org
“After losing everything, we simply have no energy left to fight the disease,” said an 11 year-old boy in a displacement camp in Idlib, Syria. (full story in the new project: Through the Lens of Crisis: COVID-19 and the People on the Frontlines of Conflict, The Soufan Center)
As we have seen over recent weeks, the impact of Covid-19 has caused unprecedented disruption, deaths, and confusion in developed countries. (full story: New Security Beat, Wilson Center)
By working collectively and innovatively, the region can prevent the next security and humanitarian disaster. (full story: Foreign Policy)
All across Latin America, leaders are targeting the reduction of organized crime as a key objective for their terms in power. But how important are state-level policies versus what’s being done at the local level? (full story: Just Security)
Following political events in Syria and Turkey over recent weeks, the 2016 Turkey-EU refugee deal is deeply unstable, which is unsurprising given that Turkey was already hosting 4.1 million refugees. (full story: Devex)
The Mexican government accepted the US proposal to become the wall, border patrol, and waiting room for asylum seekers. (full story: The New Humanitarian)
New arrivals are ticking up again, but Europe doesn’t even have a short-term plan in place—much less a long-term strategy. (full story: Foreign Policy)
“The authorities didn’t believe coronavirus existed at all in Yemen, even though the virus was spreading exponentially, and deaths cases were surging…” (Through the Lens of Crisis: COVID-19 and the People on the Frontlines of Conflict, The Soufan Center)