"In his chapter on the US Alt-Right's 'anti-Iran project', Waring provides a fascinating insight and a counterpoint to 'armchair expertise'."-Professor George Boustras, Professor in Risk Assessment, European University Cyprus, and Director of the Center for Risk and Decision Science
Dr Alan Waring, main contributor and editor. Originally qualifying and practicing as an industrial chemist, in mid-career he switched to management and social sciences. PhD 1993 at Westminster University jointly with Aston Business School, for an ethnographic study of three cases of organizations undergoing substantive change. International risk management consultant on range of corporate, strategic and operational risk issues to government departments, institutions and large corporations 1986-2016. Reports contributed to several public inquries on major disasters. More than 80 assignments in 14 countries. Sometime visiting academic roles in Beijing (International Risk Consultant, Tsinghua University 2005-2007), Hong Kong (Adjunct Professor, Centre for Corporate Governance and Financial Policy, HK Baptist University 2006-2008), and Cyprus (Visiting Professor, Centre for Risk, Safety and the Environment, European University Cyprus 2012-2016). Special risk study 1993-1998 (in Iran and UK) relating to Iran's planned transition to 'an economy without oil'. Books include Managing Risk (Waring and Glendon, 1998), Corporate Risk and Governance (2013) and Practical Systems Thinking (1996). Over 100 conference and seminar papers in UK, USA, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Iran and Cyprus. Several hundred articles in the academic, business and popular press. Contributor of The Risk Watch column in Financial Mirror since 2004.