

The International Risk Podcast
Dominic Bowen
Welcome to The International Risk Podcast — the premier destination for high-level insights into global risk dynamics. Hosted by Dominic Bowen, an accomplished senior advisor, each episode delivers expert analysis and actionable intelligence on today’s most pressing international risks. From geopolitical tensions and economic upheavals to cybersecurity threats and environmental challenges, we bring clarity to the complex risks shaping our world.Tailored for CEOs, Board Members, senior managers, and risk professionals, our weekly episodes are essential listening for those making strategic decisions in volatile environments. With distinguished guests from diverse sectors and geographies — including renowned industry experts, policymakers, and thought leaders — we provide a multidimensional perspective, equipping you with insights to stay ahead of emerging threats and capitalize on new opportunities.Our host, Dominic Bowen, is a senior business leader, and Partner at 2Secure where he is Head of Strategic Advisory and leads a team of senior management consultants and advisors.Join us for engaging, thought-provoking conversations that go beyond the headlines. Stay informed, stay ahead, and transform the way you perceive and manage international risks. The International Risk Podcast is not just a podcast; it’s is crucial listening for today's leaders.
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Sep 1, 2022 • 37min
Episode 87: with Alissa de Carbonnel on the international dimensions of the war in Ukraine
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates.Our guest this week is Alissa de Carbonnel. Alissa has over a decade of experience reporting for Reuters and other media agencies and this has included reporting from high-risk areas in Ukraine, Georgie and the Northern Caucasus. Her last post with Reuters was as the European Security correspondent where she focussed on political violence, disinformation and counter-terrorism policy and she also included energy relations with Iran and Russia in her work. Prior to that, Alissa was a Moscow based political correspondent and she's now the deputy programme director for Europe and Central Asia for the International Crisis Podcast. Find out more about Alissa here. Thank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Aug 21, 2022 • 43min
Episode 86: with Don MacPherson on Future Innovations and Risks
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk. The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledge Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates. Our guest this week is Don MacPherson, host of the 12 Geniuses Podcast! Don has spent 25 years researching employee and customer experiences as well as the attributes of great leadership and how healthy organization cultures are created and sustained. Today, Don travels the world interviewing geniuses on the trends shaping the way they live and work.Find out more about Don here!Thank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Aug 16, 2022 • 31min
Episode 85: Isuru Koswatte on Entrepreneurial Resilience and Risk Management
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk. The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledge Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates.Listen to our new episode with Isuru Koswatte, a lecturer in Business and Management specialising in global value chains, business sustainability and organisation resilience with active international collaborative research. He is also involved in several international research collaborations working as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at NSBM Green University.Find more about Dr Koswatte here, and read his latest chapter in collaboration with Nilusha Gallage on Entrepreneurial Resilience here.Thank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Aug 8, 2022 • 32min
Episode 84: with Nathan Piper on Risks in the Global Energy Sector
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, he is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledge Follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates.Our guest this week is Nathan Piper – Head of Oil & Gas Research, InvestecNathan has over 25 years experience in the oil and gas industry across a range of commercial, financial and technical roles and previously number one ranked oil equity analyst (Extel survey). Currently Head of Oil and Gas Research at Investec focused on UK-listed oil and gas companies and sought after sector commentator across a variety of platforms. Earlier this year invited to provide evidence at UK Parliament Treasury Select Committee on impact of Russian energy sanctions on the Oil and Gas markets and UK cost of living. See more at Nathan Piper | LinkedInThank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Jul 31, 2022 • 45min
Episode 83: Liam Bell on climate monitoring, technological opportunities and risk mitigation
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates.Our guest this week is Liam Bell. Liam works as an advisor for climate change tech startups and is the Chief Technology Officer at Hypervine, a company that helps construction companies build better, faster and greener. Liam is also the founding member of Climate TRACE. Climate TRACE is a coalition of organisations harnessing innovative technologies to track greenhouse gas emissions.Thank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Jul 25, 2022 • 38min
Episode 82: Kingsley Aikins on Networking and its Role in Mitigating Risks
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates.This episode's guest is Kingsley Aikins, discussing with Dominic Bowen the importance of newtorking and its role in professional development, but also its importance as a tool for risk management.Kingsley Aikins is the CEO of The Networking Institute, and has lived in six countries and worked in the areas of Trade Promotion, Philanthropy, and Diaspora Engagement. He is a regular public speaker, and mentor to many people about developing valuable networking skills.Thank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Jul 18, 2022 • 46min
Episode 81: Hamish McRae on How to Think About the Future
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter for all our great updates.Our guest this week is Hamish McRae an economic commentator for the Independent who writes weekly columns on economics and finance. He has been financial editor of Guardian and the Independent and has won numerous awards, including Business and Finance Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.His most recent book, The World in 2050, How to Think about the Future, was described by the Economist as thoughtful and sensible. Dominic discusses with Hamish the changes that will affect our global society in the short, and long term.Thank you for listening to another International Risk Podcast. Do you know someone who would like to listen to this episode? Share it with them now.Tell us what you liked!

Jun 19, 2022 • 37min
Episode 80: Thomas Lahnthaler on Self-care and Self-reflection during Crisis
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host is Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for all our great updates.Dominic Bowen speaks to Thomas Lahnthaler. Thomas started his career volunteering in South Africa for a local NGO, and has since worked in different roles for the UN, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement, governmental organizations and the private sector. During the past 15 years, he has led crisis teams in complex contexts and volatile environments in 20+ countries on all continents including Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea and DRC working with governments, international organisations, and businesses in both crisis response and recovery. For the past few years he has veeb running his own business focusing on innovative crisis management, crisis leadership and communications psychology specialising in the development of high performance teams and leadership in crisis. Thomas is Co-creator and CEO of The Crisis Compass which brings together crisis management, HR, communication, as well client and stakeholder management experts from various industries in readily assisting companies navigate through a crisis by using it as a means of reinvention.Tell us what you liked!

Jun 13, 2022 • 34min
Episode 79: Ruslan Bortnik on the War in Ukraine
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists from around the world. Our host Dominic Bowen, originally from Australia, is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists. Having spent the last 20 years successfully establishing large and complex operations in the world's highest risk areas and conflict zones, Dominic now joins you to speak with exciting guests from around the world to discuss risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for all our great updates.Ruslan Bortnik is the head of the Ukrainian Institute of politics. He is a former executive head of the humanitarian mission Black Tulip and Vice Chairman of the public council of the MOFA for Ukraine.He works as the head of committee of public council and executive head of public council for MOD in Ukraine.Tell us what you liked!

May 30, 2022 • 41min
Episode 78: Abby Stoddard on Operational Security for Aid Workers
The International Risk Podcast is a weekly podcast for senior executives, board members and risk advisors. In these podcasts, we speak with risk management specialists, people exposed to risk, and other exciting guests from around the world.In his episode Dominic Bowen speaks to Abby Stoddard, a humanitarian policy analyst and a founding partner of Humanitarian Outcomes, where she conducts research and provides analysis and advice to governments and international aid agencies.Abby discusses her research on operational security for aid workers, as well as the idea of "necessary risk" in the context of humanitarian help.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for all our great updates. Tell us what you liked!