The International Risk Podcast

Today we are joined by Nathan Mullins.  Nathan and I have worked together in many interesting places including Kashmir, Iraq, and Afghanistan.  We have had a lot of good times and tested the boundaries of risk.   Nathan is a decorated Australian Special Forces soldier and former Commando who served on missions to Timor Lese, Papua New Guinea, and Afghanistan.  Nathan has published two highly successful books, How to Amputate a Leg, and Keep Your Head Down.  Nathan is a senior consultant with the United Nations’ World Food Program, and currently leading efforts at Defence 247.  This podcast is for CEOs, Board Members, Risk and Compliance Officers, Security Advisors, and anyone interested in improving operations.  Let us avoid the consequence of inaction and share some great ideas from some of the world’s best leaders.  In these interviews we will speak with renowned international experts on how they have addressed uncertainty and assumption; how they have created systematic and structured risk treatment processes in some of the most challenging environments in the world.I am Dominic Bowen, and I am the host of the International Security and Risk Podcast.  If you know me, then you know that I have successfully established operations in some of the most complex environments around the world.  Joined by our excellent guests, I am excited to share with you some great secrets on how to help your organization thrive in areas with high risk.See more about Nathan's work at Defence 247 | The no.1 source for everything defence.Tell us what you liked!

This podcast is for CEOs, Board Members, Risk and Compliance Officers, Security Advisors, and anyone interested in improving operations, reducing risk, keeping staff safe, and increasing profitability.  In these interviews we will speak with renowned international experts on how they have addressed uncertainty and how they have created systematic and structured risk treatment processes in some of the most challenging environments in the world.  Joined by our excellent guests, I am excited to share with you some great secrets on how to help your organization thrive in areas with high risk.Today we are joined by Jo de Serrano. Jo specializes in capacity building, change, and program management within the humanitarian sector.  Jo is a well-respected senior manager, and she is well-versed in identifying and mitigating risk.  Jo is regularly sought after for her crisis management experience, for her background in disaster assessment and coordination, and her human resource skills.  Jo has worked as a freelance consultant, as well as the Senior Humanitarian Deployments Manager within the UK Government’s DFID Chase Operations team.  In 2016, Jo was awarded an OBE for her work with global humanitarian response and in 2017 she was awarded an honourary doctorate from the University of Portsmouth for her work with emergency response and international relations. She is now the Chief Executive Officer at RedR UK. www.redr.org.ukSecurity Incident Management Handbook available for free here: The Security Incident Information Management Handbook - RedRJo's article on international organisations responsibilities to protect LGBTQI staff in The New Humanitarian | Aid organisations fail to protect LGBTQI+ aid workers in the fieldTell us what you liked!

Today we are joined by Dr Hani Taleb. Dr Hani is the Chief Executive Officer at Relief Experts Association.  Dr Hani is a doctor in dental surgery and holds degrees in orthodontics, public health and health management from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Damascus University.  Dr Hani ran his own successful medical company in Syria before the war.  Dr Hani has held several senior management and leadership positions with the Syrian American Medical Society, as well as the Syrian Expatriate Medical Association, the International Rescue Committee, Relief International, and Medical Teams International, which ran extensive health programs across Syria during the war.  Today, Dr Hani leads the Relief Experts Association.Relief Experts Association employs 850 people in northern Syria, most of which are public health outreach staff fighting Covid in conflict zones controlled by multiple actors including five foreign armies.  In an area controlled so many powerful actors, negotiation is a big part of their work. Dr Hani shares his impressions about an employer’s duty of care towards their employees, even in a war zone. Dr Hani even shares an insightful story about staff running a health clinic in a town taken over by ISIS.   Over the last ten years, we have seen repeated reports on the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Dr Hani tells us the heartbreaking story about one of his colleagues that continue to finish a surgery during a chemical weapon attack that ultimately killed the doctor in the operating room.Dr Hani provides some great advice and real life case studies for anyone wanting to mitigate risk in a new operational environment.Read more about Relief Experts Association https://reliefexperts.org/ This podcast is for CEOs, Board Members, Risk and Compliance Officers, Security Advisors, and anyone interested in improving operations.Let us avoid the consequence of inaction and share some great ideas from some of the world’s best leaders.  In this podcast series we will speak to some of the world’s most experienced program directors, risk and compliance managers, and security specialists.In these interviews we will speak with renowned international experts on how they have addressed uncertainty and assumption; how they have created systematic and structured processes in some of the most nerve rattling countries in the world.I am Dominic Bowen, and I am the host of the International Security and Risk Podcast. If you know me, then you know that I have successfully established operations in some of the most complex environments around the world.  Joined by our excellent guests, I am excited to share with you some great secrets on how to help your organization thrive in areas with high risk.Tell us what you liked!

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. Our host is Dominic Bowen is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists, crisis managers, and public speakers.  Dominic is supporting some of Europe's most successful companies to improve enterprise risk management, limit corporate risk exposure, understand geopolitical impact, and prepare for and respond to crisis.  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 international risk.Today we are joined by Fadi El Khatib.  After working on political and security context analysis with international research groups and think tanks, Fadi joined MSF / Doctors without Borders, to complement our crisis management team working on a high profile kidnappings in northern Syria.Since then, he has worked with multiple organisations in Security Management and in project Coordination in Turkey, Syria, Tunisia, Libya and Afghanistan. Fadi is currently working as a security advisor for an international organsation where he is providing technical support to programs in around twenty countries.In today's episode, Fadi shares some great stories about risk and leadership in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya.Tell us what you liked!

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. Our host is Dominic Bowen is one of Europe's leading international risk specialists, crisis managers, and public speakers.  Dominic is supporting some of Europe's most successful companies to improve enterprise risk management, limit corporate risk exposure, understand geopolitical impact, and prepare for and respond to crisis.  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 international risk.The International Risk Podcast – Reducing risk by increasing knowledgeFollow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn for all our great updates.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.Connect with us on LinkedIn here: The International Risk Podcast: LinkedInSubscribe to our newsletter here. Thank you for listening. Tell us what you liked!