Enterprise Risk Assessment and Business Impact Analysis: Best Practices
Andrew Hiles, FBCI, is founder and Chairman of Survive, the international user group for business continuity planning and was a founding Director of the Business Continuity Institute, the international body for certification of business continuity professionals. He is a founder Director of Kingswell, international consultants.  Having commenced his management career with the Royal Air Force, he pioneered IT systems before leaving to take up a position within the Finance Department of London Transport. Subsequently in their Central Productivity Unit he was a Senior Projects Manager and later became responsible for the business re-engineering function, implementing new services and major technical projects.  He left to take up a position with the UK Post Office as their first Business Systems Consultant responsible for major projects.  Andrew then joined the UK Atomic Energy Authority at the Harwell Laboratories where he managed the supercomputing, mainframe!! and other bureau and facilities management services.Andrew was a founding director of Kingswell, an international consulting company with a blue chip client base specializing in Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery and in Service Management. Andrew is a pragmatic global consultant and trainer in these areas.Andrew is an international speaker on risk management, business continuity and contingency planning and has featured on conference programs in the USA, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. He has presented workshops and seminars on these topics for Frost & Sullivan (Europe), IIR/ IFF (Europe and Middle East), AIC (South Africa), CEL (Hong Kong), UPOM (Saudi Arabia) and other companies having also lectured at Ashridge, Cranfield, GEC Dunchurch and Henley Management Colleges in the UK. He has broadcast on radio, TV and on Internet webinars.He has over 300 published articles on business continuity. He is the author of Business Continuity Management: Best Practice, published by Rothstein Associates Inc. 2000, He co-edited and was the major contributor to The Definitive Guide to Business Continuity Management (published by Wiley, 1999) and The IBM GUIDE UK Disaster Recovery Manual. He contributed to the Confederation of British Industry business guide, Business Continuity Management and to the Institute of Directors / Department of Trade and Industry Business Continuity Guide.Andrew is a Fellow of the Business Continuity Institute, a Member of the British Computer Society and a Freeman of the City of London.