About Us

The Lighthill Risk Network is an all encompassing and inclusive organisation with the specific aim to facilitate and enhance knowledge transfer into business from academic, government and commercial experts at the forefront of risk-related research.

It is a cost effective not-for-profit organisation that is funded by industry and government and we are managed by a core team of professionals from (re)insurance, science and engineering. By utilising the expertise from each sector, the Lighthill Risk Network is in a unique position of being able to link our extensive academic knowledge to the research needs of industry.

Promoting personal contacts, the network provides the business community with a gateway into the latest knowledge and understanding of risk, and at the same time presents the scientific community with opportunities to interact with industry and government.

The specific aim of the Network is to facilitate and enhance knowledge transfer into business, initially insurance, from academic, government, professional and commercial experts at the forefront of risk-related research.

Targeting the latest developments in key areas of risk, and promoting the translation of knowledge between communities, the Lighthill Risk Network exists to focus and facilitate business's response to managing risk.