Profiles of the future and emerging risks

Dr Miles Elsden spoke at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Centre for Risk Studies in December 2011 on the subject of the future and emerging risks. Dr Elsden is Head of Defence and Security at the Government Office for Science. Miles is the lead official supporting the Governments Chief Scientific Advisor (Sir John Beddington) on Civil Contingencies, Defence and Security; currently on secondment to GO-Science from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). His work includes supporting the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) that provides advice to COBR, for example during the Icelandic volcanic eruptions in 2010 and the Fukushima nuclear incident in 2011. The Centre for Risk Studies is part of the University of Cambridge Judge Business School.