Atiq Ahmed Bajwa

Atiq Ahmed Bajwa

Manager, Enterprise Risk Management Marafiq

With 30+ years of experience in oil & gas and petrochemical industry, Atiq currently responsible for risk management, business continuity, integrated management system (ISO-9001, ISO-14001 and ISO-45001), governance and compliance of cyber security at Marafiq, the biggest integrated utility company in Saudi Arabia.

Conference Day One: Monday, 29 June 2020

10:05 AM KEYNOTE - Taking on tomorrow’s risks by enhancing old and adopting new risk management practices – What’s in store for 2020 and beyond?

In an increasingly uncertain financial, digital and geopolitical environment, corporate risk leaders are faced with an increasing pressure to improve their strategies to identify, assess and mitigate the most serious corporate risk threats.

  • What are some of the new strategies and tools available to improve ways in which risk is identified, evaluated and mitigated?
  • How to ensure that your organisation has an up-to-date ERM framework that is robust and agile enough to respond to future risks?
  • Aligning corporate risk strategy with the overall organisational strategy

10:35 AM PANEL DISCUSSION: The changing role of a CRO - from risk management to value management

Over the past two decades, the concept and practice of risk management has grown and matured significantly. However, it has done so in very inconsistent ways, with different organisations and industries creating their strategies and defining them differently with different responsibilities, authority, role, tolerance levels and interrelationships for internal controls, risk management, enterprise risk management and strategic risk management.

The COVID-19 was a fine reminder of the importance of ERM to organisations. Due to the evolving nature of risks and growing impact of incidents, the CRO in a boardroom is more influential and responsible than ever. Investing in risk management tools and strategies is no more to just identify and mitigate risks but also to create incremental value and business opportunities, from both a financial perspective but more from a reputational and culture perspective.

Moreover, there has been little discussion of how these considerations are to be related to the overall performance, objectives and resource allocations of organisations.

This panel will discuss how the sound ERM strategy can link all of these topics and related concepts into a management framework effectively while delivering maximum stakeholder value for enterprises.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Atiq Ahmed.

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