Andrew Blades

Executive Advisor

I am a risk management practitioner in national security and geopolitical risk with board level experience including working with the Board and the Risk and Audit committee and representing on intergovernmental committees with experience across the military, United Nations, not for profit, private and public sectors and expertise in: mining, fast moving consumer goods, hospitality, critical infrastructure, national security threat analysis, geopolitical risk, enterprise and operational risk, strategic and emerging risk, and governance. At board level, I mitigate risk. I do that utilising broad experience applying strategic foresight tools, systems thinking and alternative analysis, to support executives to effectively navigate turbulent, uncertain and novel environments In an executive capacity, I have concentrated on the governance and management of strategic and emerging risk, with a focus on high impact low probability events and frontier risks. I have broad experience applying strategic foresight tools, systems thinking and alternative analysis, to support executives to effectively navigate turbulent, uncertain and novel environments Finally, I am a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and an alumni of executive education programs from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the University of Oxford’s Said Business School, the University of Cambridge’s, Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Judge Business School.