In the first quarter of 2022, 50 percent of kidnapping and abductions occurred when the victims were either in transit or outside. The majority, 97 percent, of victims were nations in the country where the kidnapping occurred, and 85 percent of kidnapping and abductions were resolved within eight days.
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Cryptocurrency: Will it ever become mainstream and what are the risks?
Most people in the world have probably heard of cryptocurrency in conversation with friends and colleagues or online in the last couple of years. If it wasn’t the soaring value of Bitcoin reported on in headlines, the risks of not investing in bitcoin, or people talking about and memeing the almost fantastical sounding Dogecoin. And […]
Episode 74: Dominic Bowen on the conflict in Ukraine
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, people exposed to risk, and other exciting guests from around the world. The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledge Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn […]
The international risks of civil unrest and protest
High risk protests in Sweden The International Risk Podcast is tracking a variety of risks internationally, including the risks of civil unrest and protest around the world. The risks internationally from civil unrest, demonstrations, protests, and riots remains significant across the world. In Sweden, the leader of a far-right Danish party is organising protests, which […]
Jaroslava Barbieri
Currently a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a researcher at the Arena Programme at John Hopkins University, Jara obtained her MPhil in European Politics from Oxford and also holds an MSc in Political Theory from LSE and a BA in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome. Her doctoral research focuses on […]
Episode 72 : Jaroslava Barbieri on the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, we speak to Jaroslava Barbieri, a doctoral researcher looking at Russia’s involvement in post-Soviet de factor states and related challenges to conflict resolution. She is currently a researcher at the Arena Programme at John Hopkins University and her research interests lie in the EU’s foreign and neighborhood […]
Russia sanctions and the impact on international risk
Organisations around the world are assessing their governance and risk exposure as the west uses sanctions in larger scale than seen in recent history. The challenges organisations face with sanctions risk and compliance are varied andnumerous, from the operational challenge of screening vast numbers of third parties to the investigative challenge of identifying individuals or […]
Episode 58: with Dominic Bowen discussing Ukraine, Russia, and adapting business operations in the midst of a potential invasion
As the risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine become increasingly more likely, the host of the International Risk Podcast, Dominic Bowen, discusses how businesses should be preparing and adapting to this complex environment riddled with uncertainty. Dominic is an experienced leader and risk professional. From tackling whether Russia is using energy as a geopolitical […]
Russia will likely invade Ukraine – and businesses will continue to operate in a high risk environment
Chilling parallels can be drawn between Russia’s current build up on Ukraine’s eastern border and the invasion of Crimea in 2014. US intelligence observations assert that as many as 175,000 Russian troops could be mobilised along the Russo-Ukrainian border in January, a strategic move that Western analysts have correlated with President Vladimir Putin’s exponential use of […]
Colin Pereira
Our guest for episode 54 is Colin Pereira, a pioneer who has been working on risk management models for journalists operating under threat for over two decades. He is a Director at HP Risk Management, a consultancy assisting companies and media organisations operating in fragile environments. In 2020, he launched RiskPal, a software as a […]