Biography
Christopher Palm
Christopher Palm is the Chief Risk
Advisor at the Institute of Risk
Management South Africa (IRMSA).
His passion is to collaborate with
risk professionals and other key role
players both locally and globally to
transform risk management into a key
component of excellent
decision-making.
Christopher believes that a solid
enterprise risk management capability
within an entity, supported by a
risk-mature leadership, will lead to
decisions that will effectively
respond to both threats and
opportunities facing the business
world today and well into the
future.
Christopher spent 27 years with a
South African Power Utility, of which
the last 18 were at senior executive
level - from Group Audit Manager and
Head of Forensics to Head of
Enterprise Risk where he established
the Utility’s integrated risk
management capability in 2008. His
most valuable experience throughout
his time was the gaining of world
class risk and resilience knowledge,
experience and exposure and how it is
challenged in practise.
Christopher’s educational background
includes a Bachelor Degree - majoring
in Accounting, Management Accounting,
Commercial Law, Business Economics and
Economics. He also obtained an Honours
Degree in Business, Economics and
Management Accounting. He complimented
the above by completing the Executive
Leadership Development Programme at
Wits Business School.
Currently Christopher focusses on
working with risk practitioners,
C-Suites and Boards to enhance risk
maturity and address the more complex
elements of risk management such as
integrating strategy, risk and
resilience and developing applied risk
appetite frameworks. Also, the use of
big data resulting in risk
intelligence through predictive
capabilities, systems thinking and
scenario development and
analysis.
