EP 062 Dr David Rubens: 'Complex Crises' on the Anniversary of Fukushima, Japan March 2011
BIO
I am a recognised authority on the strategic management of complex events, particularly within a multi-agency crisis management framework. I offer a combination of doctoral level academic research and teaching, strong commercial, operational and project management experience, and government-level and C-Suite consultancy across SE Asia, Middle East, Latin America and East and West Africa.
I hold a doctorate in security and risk management from University of Portsmouth, writing my thesis on alternative command & control frameworks for strategic management and critical decision-making in complex crisis environments. I am currently a Lecturer on the International Security Masters programme at Berlin School of Economics and Law, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire Business School, having previously been a Visiting Lecturer and Dissertation Supervisor on the Leicester University ‘Security, Policing and Terrorism’ MSc programme, and a Visiting Lecturer on the Strategic Leadership programme at Cranfield University, where I lectured on terrorism and public policy, and strategic management of complex operations. From 2022-'23 I was a Professor in the United Nations University for Peace European Centre for Peace and Development (Belgrade), where I headed up the Strategic Risk and Crisis Management programme.
I specialise in the management of hypercomplex systems associated with city management and critical national infrastructures. I am a member of the UK National Preparedness Commission, and was a founding member of the London Resilience Gold Command Crisis Management Project Academic Advisory Group.
In 2019 I launched the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, which was designed to create a space where academics, practitioners and policymakers could come together to discuss the critical issues facing us on a planetary, national and community level. That now has thirty-five International Chapters, works with some of the largest organizations in the world, and is recognised as an institute of significance and influence.
In 2023 we launched the Centre for the Study of Wicked Problems, a global think tank with thirty-plus participating partner institutes. Its launch programme is an 18-month research and policy-development project concerning Global Urban Resilience.
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