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39. "Risk appetite: technical update" for the CRSA Forum event on 28th November 2008, in London. This is free to attend and open to anyone. Visit the ACCA website for more details and contact Paul Moxey, whose email address is shown on that page.

Past conference speeches

38. "The Implications of the Sub-prime Credit Crunch" for IIR's Internal Controls, Audit & Risk for Financial Services conference on 30th September 2008, in London.

37. "Seven frontiers of internal control and risk management" on day one of Professor Andrew Chambers' International Internal Auditing School, in London on 12th August 2008, promoted by Quorum.

36. "Risk appetite and all that" for the Control Risk Self Assessment Forum meeting on 3rd July 2008, at Birmingham Airport.

35. "Uncertainty and the event organiser" for the Institute of Association Management's meeting on 26th June 2008, in London.

34. "Progressive risk and performance management with mental models" at Tom Gilb's summer conference in the week commencing 23rd June 2008, London.

33. "Applying Risk & Controls Management to Improve Business Performance" at IIR's Strategic Risk event on governance, in London on 3rd June 2008.

32. "Managing culture change when implementing ERM: Improving performance and innovation" at IIR's ERM Summit day, London, on 10th March 2008.

31. "Direction and strategy: where does internal audit fit in?" at a Lexis Nexis event on governance chaired by Professor Andrew Chambers, in London on 21st November 2007.

30. "Solving compliance problems creatively" at the Institution of Engineering and Technology's event, "The Information Professional IT Compliance Conference 2007", in London on 11th July 2007.

29. "Difficulties and solutions in using 'corporate risk appetite'" at IIR's Enterprise Risk Management conference in London on 4th July 2007.

28. "Smart and stupid decision making under uncertainty" at Tom Gilb's annual seminar in London, the week commencing 2nd July 2007.

27. A poster presentation on "Credible verbal presentations of uncertain weather forecasts?" at the Met Office's event "Meteorology meets Decision Science: Risk, Forecast, and Decision" in Exeter on 7th June 2007.

26. "Difficulties and solutions in using 'corporate risk appetite'" at IIR's Internal Audit and Business Risk conference in London on 26th March 2007.

25. "Getting value from internal control programmes" at IIR's Internal Audit and Business Risk conference in Amsterdam on 22nd November 2006.

24. "New Corporate Governance and Internal Control Requirements: Including strategies for efficient compliance" (a full day's workshop) on 27th September 2006, just after IIR's main conference.

23. "Getting value from internal control programmes" at IIR's internal controls conference on 25th and 26th September 2006.

22. "Succeeding with innovative risk and control projects" at IIR's Risk Management Congress on 11th and 12th July 2006.

21. "Innovative ways of using risk management" at an event on adaptive performance management for charities held at CASS business school on 27th June 2006.

20. "How do we know we're measuring the results that matter?" at Tom Gilb's Value Driven Planning seminar throughout the week commencing 26th June 2006.

19. "What is the role of hard data in ERM?" at IIR's Enterprise Risk Management Summit on 20th March 2006.

18. "Risk management in performance management" for the Beyond Budgeting Round Table's Public Sector Interest Group on 8th March 2006.

17. "Doing probabilities properly" for the Financial Services Group of SURVIVE on 8th December 2005.

16. "Practicalities of embedding ERM" at IIR's Internal Auditing conference on 22nd November 2005 in Amsterdam.

15. "Cutting your Sarbox costs" for a Lexis Nexis conference on New Directions in Business Risk and Controls Reporting, 15th and 16th November 2005.

14. "How to be convincing when you are uncertain" at the Chartered Institute of Marketing's conference on 4th October 2005.

13. "Teaching auditors about reviews" for Tom Gilb's (invitation only) symposium on reviews during the week commencing 20th June 2005.

12. "Cutting your Sarbox costs" for a Lexis Nexis conference on corporate governance on 15th June 2005.

11. "Ways of working together" for the Financial Services Group of SURVIVE on 12th May 2005.

10. "The risk manager's real impact" at IIR's Risk Management and Governance in the Public Sector conference on 26th January 2005.

9. "Intelligent controls" at IIR's Internal Audit conference on 30th November 2004.

8. "Implementing an operational risk framework" at IIR's Compliance and Financial Reporting in the Insurance Industry conference on 23rd November 2004.

7. "Risk management with impact" at the US Army Internal Review training symposium in Arizona in June 2004.

6. "Open and honest about risk and uncertainty" at IIR's Risk Management Summit on 7th July 2004.

5. "Problem areas for current risk management standards" at BSI events on 13th and 20th February 2004.

4. "Risk and performance management" for the Sayer Vincent Charities group on 10th December 2003.

3. "Risk Management and Beyond Budgeting" at the Beyond Budgeting Round Table's meeting on 25th September 2003.

2. "Survive SOX" at a meeting of SURVIVE's Financial Services Group on 18th September 2003.

1. "Risk Management and Beyond Budgeting" at the Beyond Budgeting Round Table's meeting in March 2003.

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