Message from our CEO

It is with great pleasure that I send this message to our members all around the world. For those of you who do not know me, my name is Justin C McCarthy, Justin C McCarthy and I am the new CEO of PRMIA. From the Irish Chapter to the Global Council CEO, PRMIA of Regional Directors to being the chair of the Global Board, I have worked as a PRMIA volunteer for many years and now I am excited to have taken the CEO role. During my volunteer years, I have gained experience in risk and leadership roles in PwC, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Ulster Bank, and many others. Now in PRMIA I have taken on a leadership role in a 20-year-old organization. My focus in the last few months has been to review how we do business and to work with the wider PRMIA team on how best to serve our global risk community and as a non-profit, ensure a surplus, build our reserves, and start to invest in the future. Part of this has been to enable the launch of our new Professional Operational Risk Manager Designation, put in place online forums for topics such as ESG & Cyber, and start to re-engage with chapters and members through a return to online and even hybrid events. To allow this to be more easily engaged with, we will have a different theme for each of the coming months – Operational Risk and Individual Membership has been an April Topic, we will focus on Cyber for June, and as per the focus of this edition of Intelligent Risk, we are focusing on ESG and climate risk. As you can see from the articles in this edition, there is a great interest in ESG and climate, and PRMIA is working to meet that interest. In May there will be related webinars and a Global Online ESG Forum on May 17th and 18th. Related to membership and especially Sustaining membership – if you are not already doing so, please support PRMIA through a Sustaining membership. I can list all the benefits but really, I want to ask you to support us financially. It allows us to create a surplus, build our reserves, and invest in the future of the PRMIA community and ensure a legacy for our designation holders and many others. If you do not wish to support us in this way, then please consider PRMIA as your Learning and Development partner for your own career or for the careers of others across your employer. Thank you and looking forward to an exciting PRMIA future! Justin C McCarthy CEO, PRMIA

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