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Spreading the word A new regional interest group covering the Asia Pacific (APAC) region is aiming to bolster support for risk management professionals and IRM membership BY JO POWELL
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he Asia Pacific (APAC) region, which includes India, South East Asia, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, is one of the world’s fastest growing, with a huge amount of growth and investment underway in all industries. Its burgeoning economies offer a great opportunity to implement good practice and pragmatic risk management. There is a growing appetite from risk professionals across the region to ensure risk management is effectively embedded into the organisations they are part of. The APAC regional interest group (RIG) includes a number of IRM ambassadors, each with experience in the region, who will help bring more direct engagement with the institute into their countries. As active contributors to thought leadership in risk management, both in the context of the APAC region and within the IRM globally, they also liaise with IRM special interest groups (SIGs) and other partner organisations to maximise the support for the risk profession in the region.
Focused training and on-the-ground trainers can be of real value
Identifying the main risks in the region In his contribution to the IRM’s review of risks for 2018, Gareth Byatt, independent risk management
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Above: Gareth Byatt
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