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Adapting to change Science and risk management have a lot in common, says NEST’s chief risk officer BY NEIL HODGE
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aking the move from studying animal biology to analysing business and operational risks may seem like a fantastic leap for most people, but Dan Davis sees it as a natural step and part of his own evolutionary process. After completing a degree in zoology at the University of Nottingham in 2006, Davis moved to London and started work at Citibank. In 2008 he took his first steps into a career in risk management when he moved to Network Rail as a risk and value analyst, working on one of London’s biggest and most complex infrastructure projects – the Blackfriars Station and Bridge reconstruction – which was part of the Thameslink Programme. In 2011 he took on his first full-time risk management role at transport and infrastructure company Thales, working on the Jubilee and Northern Line signalling upgrade project. “I learned a lot about risk management from my time at Network Rail and Thales,” says Davis. “The engineering projects I worked on were very complex, and as the work progressed new risks would emerge, and the approach to how risks were managed would need to change. It was highly fluid and we had to adapt as necessary. That
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The engineering projects I worked on were very complex, and as the work progressed new risks would emerge, and the approach to how risks were managed would need to change
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