John Hudspith will present a lecture on security at the AIRMIC conference
From experience of Latin America, John Hudspith put together a ‘conduct after capture’ lecture for security personnel in Iraq, not realising that he would soon have to put the advice to personal use. While he was working in Nigeria, a militant group took him and eight other people hostages to use as human shields against the Nigerian military. Hudspith helped other hostages survive and avoided getting singled out and executed as a threat to the militants.
Paul Moore faced a devastating threat to his career, if not actually life and limb. As head of group regulatory risk for the bank HBOS, he lost his job after calling the board’s attention to what he saw as a dangerously relaxed view of investment risk. Within two years, the financial and banking crisis proved him right in a spectacular way, and Moore found himself at the centre of a media storm for telling his story to a Treasury select committee.
These two accounts of managing risks will be among the highlights of AIRMIC’s annual conference 2010 which will take place on 15-16 June at Manchester Central Convention Complex under the theme: influencing outcomes. The exhibition is already a sell out.
