Franck Baron, private enterprise risk manager in the Republic of Singapore.

Laurent Condamin, Ph.D., is an independent consultant involved in risk modeling for industry and the financial sector specializing in: project risk quantification, business plan modeling, and operational risk quantification.

Richard Connelly, Ph.D., Chairman and Cofounder of Business Intelligence International, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA.

Grace Crickette, SVP, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, AAA NCNU, formerly Chief Risk Office for the University of California, USA.

Fiona Davidge, LLB., FIRM, MBCI, Enterprise Risk Manager for Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom.

Kenneth W. Felton, RN, MS, CPHRM, DFASHRM, Senior Vice President, National Healthcare Practice, Willis Group Holdings, Hartford, Connecticut, for introductions to key industry players.

Sophie Gaultier-Gaillard, Ph.D., is an associate professor at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) and director of the “Management in crisis situation” certificate; a French specialist of global risk assessment and crisis management in management sciences; and an executive member of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe. She is currently conducting research on reputational risk and crisis situations, studying the decision makers' perception.

Daniel A. Gaus, General Manager, Berkshire Hathaway International Insurance Ltd., Zurich Branch, Zurich Switzerland.

George-Yves Kervern (deceased), formerly Ancien Élève de l'Ecole Polytechnique; Founder of Cindynics.

Kevin W. Knight, AM, is the Chairman ISO Technical Committee 262 – Risk Management, and is a founding member of the Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand Joint Technical Committee OB/7 – Risk Management that produced the original AS/NZS 4360 Risk Management Standard in 1995 and its subsequent revisions in 1999 and 2004.

Duojia (Doug) Lu, Ph.D. Chairman, First Huida Risk Management, Beijing, China.

Christopher Mandel SVP, Strategic Solutions, Sedgwick, Inc., long-term senior risk management practitioner/leader.

Patrick Naim, ARM is a consultant involved in risk modeling and quantification for major banks, insurance companies and industries in France, UK and US. Patrick also co-authored several books in risk quantification, data mining, data modeling, and Bayesian networks.

Alain Ngolui, graduate student, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, compiler of references for this text.

John R. Phelps, CPCU, ARM is the 2013 President and Director of the Risk and Insurance Managers' Society (RIMS).

Jenny Rayner, MIRM, Director, Abbey Consulting, UK.

Renee Reimer, J.D., Chief Risk & Legal Operations Officer, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, Texas, USA.

Marc Ronez, Chief Risk Strategist and Master Coach, Asia Risk Management Institute.

Robert L. Snyder, J.D. is a professional risk advisor and a member of the Texas Bar and has served as an adjunct lecturer in Insurance and Risk Management in the College of Business at the University of Houston – Downtown, Houston Texas, USA.

Samiha Viand, Directeur Gestion des Risques et Assurances, The OPAC du Rhône, France.