21 - 24 August 2006, InterContinental Sandton Sun & Towers, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Masterclass II

Thursday, 24 August 2006

Enterprise risk management essentials

Registration for the masterclass will be at 08:30; the masterclass will commence at 09:00 and conclude at 17:00. Morning and afternoon refreshments, as well as lunch, are scheduled into the day’s proceedings.

Topics discussed include:

  • Introduction: Jungle Risk Management – Risk lessons from the bush: An entertaining introduction to the principles of ERM illustrating how animals and their behaviour in the bush relate to risk management principles
  • Risk Management Glossary: The Dictionary of Risk Management
  • The Taxonomy of Risk Management
  • The Business Case for Risk Management
  • The Regulatory Case for Risk Management
  • Risk Management Strategies
  • Risk Bearing Capacity and Risk Appetite
  • Risk Assessment, including Risk Identification, Risk Quantification,
    Risk Evaluation
  • Risk Control and Risk Management Action Plans
  • Formation and Utilisation of Risk Management Committees
  • Risk Monitoring
  • Risk Responsibilities
  • Cost of Risk

About your masterclass presenter



Dr Gert Cruywagen

Group Manager: Risk Management
Sappi Ltd

Gert Cruywagen has just been appointed as the Group Manager: Risk Management for SAPPI Ltd. He was, until recently, Senior Manager: Global Risk Management of the Mittal Steel Group (formerly the LNM Group). Before this appointment, Gert was the Manager: Corporate Risk and Insurance Management of the Iscor Group, a position he held since 1994 and as such, was responsible for the Group’s total risk and insurance requirements. After the unbundling of Kumba Resources Ltd. from Iscor, he maintained responsibility for Kumba’s total risk management and insurance function in a dual responsibility. He is still a director of Ferrosure (South Africa) Insurance Company Limited and served on the Boards of Ferrosure (Isle of Man) Insurance Company Limited, and of Ispat International Insurance Company Limited based in Guernsey.


He holds management and risk management qualifications from a number of local and international universities, including an M.B.Sc. from ANCES, a PMD from UDW and a Ph.D. from UAS. He is the
immediate past President of the Risk Management Federation of South Africa, a Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management of South Africa and a past Chairman of the South African Risk and Insurance Management Association (SARIMA), a member of RIMS (USA) and of the U.K. Institute of Directors based in London. He is a winner of the SANTAM/RMF Risk Manager of the Year Award for 2001.


Gert is a member of the Risk Management Workgroup of the King Committee on Corporate
Governance (King 2).

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