Bill Durodié
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Bill Durodié is Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security at the Defence College of Management and Technology, Cranfield University, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.
He was previously Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, within the War Studies Group of King's College London.
His main research interest is into the causes and consequences of our contemporary consciousness of risk. He is also interested in examining the erosion of expertise, the demoralisation of élites, the limitations of risk management and the growing demand to engage the public in dialogue and decision-making in relation to science.
Bill was educated at Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, and New College Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA), an Associate Fellow of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), an Associate of the Royal College of Science (ARCS), a Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, and an Advisory Forum Member of the Scientific Alliance.
Bill appeared in the BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary series produced by Adam Curtis: The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.
A transcript of his September 2006 interview with the Australian broadcaster Robyn Williams for 'In Conversation' on ABC Radio National is available from; http://www.abc.net.au/rn/inconversation/stories/2006/1738904.htm
A video podcast of his recent lecture 'Resilience in the Face of Terrorism' given on 9 March 2007 at the University of Warwick Business School is available from; http://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/features/2007/03/13/Resilience/in/the
