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