What do accountants, disaster specialists and health care professionals have in common? More than you think. Each of these occupations struggle daily with the challenge of having to evaluate and manage risk. Join us on Friday, April 30 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm for a timely symposium at York University on Risk and Accountability.
Learn how risk intersects across these occupations and other fields; consider how accountability influences different risk management processes; and get valuable insight into how to better manage your organizations’ response to risk through discussions with seasoned professionals, practitioners and academics.
The main questions our symposium will explore include:
- How does accountability influence different risk management processes?
- In what ways are decision makers’ values and ideals incorporated into risk management?
You’ll have the opportunity to
- Engage in a dialogue between academics and practitioners on topics including financial risk, disaster and environmental risk and patient risk.
- Exchange knowledge and experience on managing and responding to risk through break out sessions and roundtable discussions with practitioners, academics, alumni, students and other key stakeholders.
- Be inspired by two plenary sessions that will challenge you to rethink the ways in which you manage risk.
Keynote Session
Personal Longevity Risk: Will We Outlive Our Money?
Moshe A. Milevsky, Associate Professor, Schulich School of Business
In this presentation Professor Milevsky will discuss how (i.) increasing human longevity, (ii.) declining pension coverage in Canada and (iii.) stressful financial markets around the world are creating a new and unique type of risk; recently coined "the lifetime ruin probability."
Plenary sessions:
Managing risk and staying accountable to stakeholders
Antoinette Bazoc, Vice-President, Human Resources and Legal Affairs, Canada Lands Corporation
The Financial Crisis, Early Warning Systems
Howard Adelman, Professor Emeritus, York University
Concurrent Panel Sessions:
Computer Tape: Accountants Dream of Taking Risks
Be Afraid - Be Very Afraid: Risk Perspectives on the Environment, Society and Catastrophe
Risks in Patient Health Care: Complexity is the Easy Part
For additional information on the symposium and specific sessions please visit the website. RSVP your attendance to misaac@yorku.ca.
We hope to see you there.
Joanne Jones, Conference Chair
Paul Evans, Director
School of Administrative Studies
Contact Information
416-736-5210
misaac@yorku.ca
www.yorku.ca/laps/sas
