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Keith Smith

Senior Manager, Risk Advisory and Analytics
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Keith has many years of experience helping organisations with risk management and decision making, starting his career in high-tech engineering and then moving into business management roles.

Having worked in risk management across several sectors, Keith brings a breadth of implementation and application experience to the team. He is innovative in his approach, practical in his application, and can tap into fresh thinking for bespoke problem solving.

In addition to having a client-facing consultancy role, Keith is also one of the authors helping to develop the self-help material for the BW Risk Portal. 

Keith has always been interested in innovation and remains at the cutting edge of risk management thinking. Alongside his client-facing consultancy work, he continues to contribute to the body of knowledge on decision-making under uncertainty through original research, articles, standardisation work and books on the subject.

 

Significant experience:

  • Helping develop new standards for general use in risk and resilience management
  • Multiple implementations of risk management processes across various sectors
  • Original research into decision-making under uncertainty for practical application within organisations

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Career

Before joining Barnett-Waddingham, Keith was Research and Development manager at Lloyd’s, where the team produced emerging risk research reports and supported innovation across the Lloyd’s insurance market.

Keith currently chairs the British Standards Committee on emerging risk and participates at an international level as a UK representative on emerging risk. Keith is a former director of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM), a certified fellow of the IRM and is still a regular speaker on risk internationally and at universities.

Interests

Keith enjoys the countryside, which he explores with his wife in their caravan. Keith is also a licensed radio amateur, so if you can’t get him by email, try calling him on a radio.