Behavioural Risk as a Systemic Threat: Governance, Culture, and the Hidden Architecture of Organisational Failure

Behavioural Risk as a Systemic Threat: Governance, Culture, and the Hidden Architecture of Organisational Failure

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 02.02.2025 Risk management has traditionally focused on quantifiable exposures: market volatility, credit defaults, operational breakdowns, and compliance breaches. Yet across sectors, repeated organisational failures demonstrate that these events are rarely isolated technical accidents. Instead, they emerge from behavioural patterns that shape how individuals interpret incentives, respond to pressure, exercise judgement, and normalise…

Simon Keslake

Simon Keslake

ByElisa Garbil

Simon Keslake is the Co-Founder and Behavioural Architect of Behavioural Risk Intelligence® (BRI). His focus is on redefining how organisations measure, understand, and manage the most complex human risks – those originating across leadership teams. BRI is a specialist behavioural economics and psychology consultancy. They combine over 40 years of proprietary behavioural data, peer-reviewed research,…

Episode 318: Behavioural Risk with Simon Keslake

ByElisa Garbil

Coordinated and Produced by Elisa Garbil In this episode Dominic Bowen speaks with Simon Keslaké, co-founder of Behavioural Risk Intelligence, about why organisational failure is so often driven by behaviour rather than systems or policies. They explore what behavioural risk really means, how it differs from traditional risk management, and why leadership signals, incentives, and team dynamics…

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2025: A Year Full of Crisis Preparedness and Response

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The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025 described an “increasingly fractured” world, with state-based conflict, climate disruption, political polarization and technological risks all intensifying at the same time. Geopolitical and international risk dashboards from 2Secure, BlackRock, KPMG and others show the same picture: conflicts are reshaping trade, energy and supply chains; national security concerns…

Episode 191: Navigating Socioeconomic and Institutional Transformation in Post-Assad Syria with Zaki Mehchy

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In this week’s midweek episode, we explore the institutional and socioeconomic risks and opportunities facing Syria in the aftermath of the Assad regime. Joined by Zaki Mehchy, we delve into the critical steps that both the international community and Syria’s next government must prioritize in the coming years. From resilience-building and community engagement to targeted…

Zaki Mehchy

Zaki Mehchy

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Zaki Mehchy is a policy fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science Conflict and Civicness Research Group (CCRG), a researcher at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) and a co-founder of the Syrian Center for Policy Research. Zaki has dedicated his career to advancing development policies and addressing the complex socio-economic…

Episode 190: The Current Situation in Syria with Joseph Daher

ByElisa Garbil

Coordinated and Produced by Elisa Garbil This week Dominic has Joseph Daher back on the podcast. They discuss how the Assad Regime has fallen. Moreover they dive into what Turkey is hoping to get out of the fall of the Assad Regime, how Iran’s Axis of Resistance might be crumbling slowly, what Israel is hoping to…

Destroyed Houses in Syria

The Ongoing Conflict in Syria: Israel’s Involvement, Assad’s Brutality, and the Rebellion’s Complexities

ByElisa Garbil

Written by Elisa Garbil – 16.12.2024 The Syrian civil war, now entering its 13th year, remains one of the most complex and devastating conflicts in modern history. With multiple actors involved and shifting alliances, Syria’s war has not only torn the country apart but also drawn in neighboring states, including Israel. Recent developments, including Israel’s…

Nicholas Cheeseman

Nicholas Cheeseman

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Nic Cheeseman (@fromagehomme) is Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, and the Director of the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR). He was formerly the Director of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. Dr Cheeseman mainly works on democracy, elections and development, including a range of topics such as election rigging, political campaigning, corruption,…

Rosa Freedman

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Rosa Freedman is the inaugural Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development at the University of Reading. She received her LLB, LLM and PhD from the University of London, and is a non-practising barrister and member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. Freedman’s research focuses on the UN and human rights. She has published…