Dr Alan Waring is a retired risk analyst with extensive international consulting experience with government departments, corporations and institutions. He is the author of Corporate Risk and Governance (2013) and several other books on risk, as well as the editor and contributor to The New Authoritarianism: A Risk Analysis, a three-volume publication by Ibidem, published from 2018 to 2021. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Risk and Decision Sciences (CERIDES), European University Cyprus.