DWBE - 013 - Ready For Risk - Eamonn Cunningham

Riding the Wave-Project Management for Emergency Managers

Episode 13 Sponsored by the MS in ERM Program at Yeshiva University's Katz School: www.yu.edu/katz/programs/graduate/ms-risk In this episode we spoke with Eamonn Cunningham about his career in risk management and how to embed a culture of risk management, bringing the function to the enterprise level. Eamonn Cunningham recently retired as Chief Risk Officer of Scentre Group the owner and operator of Westfield in Australia and New Zealand. As CRO, Eamonn directed the global Risk Management practice within Westfield and subsequently Scentre Group, with responsibility for all risk areas including Environmental Life Safety, Insurance and Claims, Business Continuity Planning, Enterprise Risk Management. He led the team that won the Risk Manager/Team of the year at the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance in 2010. In 2014 Eamonn was inducted into the Business Insurance Risk Manager of the Year Honor Role. In May 2017 Eamonn received StrategicRisk's Lifetime Achiever Award at their AsiaPac conference in Singapore. Eamonn is a past Chairman of the Risk Management Committee of the Property Council of Australia and former member of the M200 Association. He is a member of the board of The Risk and Insurance Management Society Australasia Limited and a member of AIRMIC's advisory council. Eamonn holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Galway, Ireland and a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. For more information on the Risk Management Society, go to: www.rims.org