The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, one of Europe’s leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the […]
Author: Alexandra Webb
Existing bias in The Liberal International Order
In the following article explores how the construction of The International Liberal Order allowed for bias and dominace in the international realm to favour some states over others. Through exploring this bias, the article highlights the risks which have faced poorer countries particularly as a result of participating in The Liberal International Order. What is […]
Episode 108: Neil Melvin on the Liberal International Order
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, one of Europe’s leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the […]
Neil Melvin
Dr Neil Melvin is Director International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). His current research is focused on emerging international security dynamics in key regions around the world, notably Europe and Eurasia, the Gulf and Middle East, East Africa and the Horn, and the Indo-Pacific. Prior to joining RUSI, Dr Melvin was […]
Zoonotic Diseases, Future Pandemics and its Interconnected Relationship with Animal Agriculture.
The following article investigates the international risk which zoonotic diseases pose by accessing the type of relationship human’s have with animals, and illustrating how human destruction contributes to catalysing future pandemics. This article follows The International Risk Podcast’s recent episode with David Quammen which can be found here. On 30th December 2019, the lab results […]
Episode 105: Aisha Jumaan on the Health Crisis in Yemen
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, one of Europe’s leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the […]
Episode 100: Nick Outlaw on Effective Leadership in Risk Management
In this episode, Dominic speaks with Nick Outlaw about effective leadership in Risk Management. Nick Outlaw is a leadership and organisational development specialist, with over 20 years of experience supporting multinational companies governments and humanitarian organisations on the frontline of major crises. He has been working with clients around the world and had the opportunity […]
The Reproductive Healthcare Crisis in Yemen
The following article discuss the unequal effects healthcare deterioration has had on women and children in Yemen, specifically reproductive health. Through highlighting how the current escalation of the health crisis in Yemen has effected health infrastructure disproportionatley for women, the extent to which the conflict and lack of international aid has placed millions of lives […]
Aisha Jumaan
Aisha Jumaan, MPH, PhD, is an independent consultant coordinating health projects in Yemen. Dr Jumaan has over 30 years of experience in public health, including in viral vaccine preventable diseases, cancer research, maternal & child health and nutrition, and women in development. She managed the HPV vaccine project for Path and worked with the US […]
David Quammen
DAVID QUAMMEN is an American author and journalist whose seventeen books include The Song of the Dodo (1996), The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2006), Spillover (2012), and The Tangled Tree (2018). His most recent book, Breathless (2022), describes the scientific effort to trace the origins and evolution of the Covid-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, and to combat the […]