Centre for Risk Studies

Integrating Risk into Strategic Decision-Making

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The Centre for Risk Studies provides frameworks for recognising, assessing and managing the impacts of systemic threats. The research programme is concerned with catastrophes and how their impacts ripple across an increasingly connected world with consequent effects on the international economy, financial markets, firms in the financial sectors and global corporations. To test our research outputs and guide our research agenda, the Centre engages with the business community, government policy makers, regulators and industry bodies.

People

At the heart of the Centre is a dynamic, multidisciplinary team of individuals drawn from varied fields researching a range of topics as diverse as cyber insurance to geopolitical conflict.

The Risk Prize

An annual competition held with McKinsey & Company to recognise the best submission on risk management by a current postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge and the School.

Events

The Centre runs an active programme of events in which academics, business leaders, policy makers and other stakeholders discuss and develop responses to risk-management issues.

Research

Currently pursuing many inter-related research tracks, exploring a wide range of different threats and developing a common framework for risk analysis aimed at quantifying resilience.

Risk Summits

Annually bringing together senior executives and decision makers from business, government and industry backgrounds, as well as a variety of researchers, to explore pressing issues in risk management.

Upcoming events

There are no events currently scheduled.

Latest blog post

How Well did Economic Models Perform in the Covid-19 Economic Crisis?
15th March 2021
This article compares forecasts from 2020 with actual outcomes. You can view the latest economic forecasts from the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies by visiting the Cambridge Business Risk Hub. By Dr Scott Kelly, Senior Risk Researcher, Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies At the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, we estimate the consequences of extreme […]

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Predicting impact 18 March 2021

A year after UK lockdown, the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies calls for probability-based scenario approach to forecasting crises due to unreliability…

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Strategising around risk for business and economies 17 February 2021

MBA students' contributions to the annual Cambridge-McKinsey Risk Prize provide valuable learnings. Cambridge MBA students enthusiastically take part in the annual Cambridge-McKinsey…

Financial Times: Crisis management courses prepare EMBA students for the worst 21 October 2020

Daniel Ralph, Professor of Operations Research at Cambridge Judge Business School comments on contingency planning. Professor Ralph teaches Cambridge Executive MBA participants…