Better knowledge of risk is vital to business, yet finding the time and resources within an organisation to identify, understand and act on the emerging key issues can be difficult. The Lighthill Risk Network recognises that in the world of business, advice and answers are needed quickly, and exists to facilitate and direct knowledge into Industry.

  • Access to a global bank of expertise in risk and risk management

  • Networking opportunities within the entire Financial Services Sector

  • Best practice and latest thinking from the academic community on a variety of risk related themes

  • Access to government agencies and government data of interest and value to industry

  • Membership to the Financial Services Knowledge Transfer Network (FS-KTN)

Risk has a foothold in countless fields and sub-fields of science and engineering from meteorology and natural hazards to extreme value statistics, industrial accidents, game theory, disease science and behavioural systems. Understanding these issues is critical to society's ability to deal with risk.

  • Link your science to its application end-point, for the benefit of society

  • Apply your research to help answer real-time problems and identify opportunities to work with industry

  • Keep a wider community updated on your current projects and publications

  • Exchange ideas with other experts in your field and beyond

  • Collaborate to publicise emerging themes, events and initiatives

As a diverse community of interest, the Lighthill Risk Network represents a forum with which to approach policymakers, regulators, professional bodies and scientific institutions with the needs of its members. 



  • Link your science to its application end-point, for the benefit of society

  • Apply your research to help answer real-time problems and identify opportunities to work with industry

  • Keep a wider community updated on your current projects and publications

  • Exchange ideas with other experts in your field and beyond

  • Collaborate to publicise emerging themes, events and initiatives