AIRMIC sets up company to promote risk management learning

AIRMIC, the risk management association, has set up a company to promote understanding of risk management in the wider business community in a move that means executive director David Gamble will be stepping down from the position he has held since 1998.

Gamble will lead the new enterprise, provisionally known as Risk Publishing Online, once all the arrangements are finalised. AIRMIC will be advertising shortly for another executive director. The changes are expected to take place in the summer after the association’s annual conference.

The new company will build on PRORIM, the e-learning risk management course for smaller and medium-sized businesses pioneered by AIRMIC and sponsored by the European Union’s Leonardo de Vinci project. As well as developing PRORIM within the EU, the aim is to market it elsewhere. Talks have already begun with associations and potential customers in a range of locations, including Russia, India and South Africa.

It is hoped that in future the other original PRORIM Partners, including FERMA (the Federation of European Risk Management Associations) and the IRM (Institute of Risk Management) will make use of the systems and courses as they are developed.

“By next summer I will have been at AIRMIC for nearly ten years, which is a long time in one job, and I am very excited by this new challenge,” said Gamble. “The feedback from PRORIM has been very positive, and we want to give it the push it deserves as part of a wider ambition to promote the risk management values that we represent.

“The role of executive director has been, and continues to be, a very engaging and rewarding one. I have been very fortunate in the chairmen who I have worked for and in the friendship and assistance I have received from members and those in the wider market. Whoever takes over can look forward to a job that never stands still and is always interesting.”

AIRMIC chairman Geoff Taylor said the establishment of a company to promote PRORIM was a landmark development for the association. “Under David Gamble’s leadership AIRMIC is more active, more influential and broader in scope than it has ever been, and I am pleased that we will be retaining his knowledge and expertise.

“His new position shows how seriously we take our role as a leading promoter of risk management in its full sense. The association’s core job remains the same: to represent and give support to risk managers. But we have always recognised that we have a wider responsibility to promote a risk management culture. With these changes, it will be easier for us to take our message to new audiences.”

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•Date: 16th January 2007 • Region: UK/World •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
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