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Christopher Thackray

RISK MANAGEMENT & RESILIENCE INFLUENCER​

Christopher Thackray is a risk management and resilience professional with 22 years of global industry and consulting experience. Chris is a sought-after thought leader in risk management and a trusted advisor to management and board members across industries. Chris combines his proven expertise in risk management with his strategic, forward-thinking, and analytical abilities to advise and assist business leaders with building tested, commercially competitive, resilient enterprises. Chris has worked across the Auto, Aviation, Financial Services, Oil & Gas and Power & Utility industries to help business leaders confidently anticipate, prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from disruptions caused by changes in internal and external operating conditions.

Professional Credentials

Professional Experience

  • Advised the Chief Risk Officer of an FTSE100 global asset manager on strategies, policies and standards relating to Strategic Risk, Reputational Risk, ESG Risk and Operational Risk in advance of the company’s listing on the London Stock Exchange.

  • Developed the solutions suite and deployed to market a new cross-industry Operational Risk practice for a “Big Four” global consultancy. The practice was awarded Consultancy of the Year by Risk.net, a widely recognised publication in the financial services industry.

  • Assisted a US-based power generation and distribution company, providing energy services to over 15 million people, resetting its risk management strategy, policies and standards with tangible measures centred on preventing energy leakages and disruptions to retail and corporate customers.

  • Guided the Supply Chain Risk Management Committee of a diverse industrial and financial services conglomerate with a multi-billion dollar purchase base to embed advanced standards of financial, operational and reputational risk management into the company’s complex and critical global supply chain.

Global Delivery

  • Deployed a new cross-industry Operational Risk practice for a Big Four consultancy, with tailored solutions designed to address clients’ interests operating in the Auto, Aviation, Energy and Financial Services industries, based in New York for two years.

  • Assisted in developing a global risk management function for an international commercial and retail financial services company, with assets of $750bn and operating in over 60 countries, located in Connecticut (USA) for four years.

  • Established the risk management function for a Japanese-based industrial and financial services conglomerate operating across the Asia-Pacific region, based in Japan, for three years.

  • Provided operational and risk management expertise to aid negotiations for the sale of a Colombian retail bank from the parent company, based in London (frequent travel to Bogota, Colombia).

  • Led buy-side negotiations to outsource the Technology function and secure the provision of Technology services for a commercial and consumer retail bank operating across the Nordic region, based in Sweden, for one year.

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Inspiring the next generation of risk management and resilience by assisting business leaders in innovating and growing, affecting change, putting data to better use and pre-emptively managing risk to future proof their businesses.

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