FERMA’s new president Charlotte Hedemark believes she is ideally placed to promote an agenda of elevating the risk management function and instilling it in business decision-making, given her extensive experience of strategic risk management through her roles at tech giant SAP.
Currently a global risk management expert and transformation agent in customer success risk assurance services at SAP, her responsibilities include assessing field risks and opportunities, board-level risk reporting and monitoring transformation activities.
“Increasing the strategic value of risk management has been a core area of focus for FERMA,” she says. “This is something that I will continue to champion as we work to embed the risk manager in the strategic framework of organisations.
“By heightening the overall professional standing of risk management, I believe that not only will we elevate the risk management function within organisations, but also enhance its appeal to new talent.”
A key element of this is professionalising the industry. “Having a profession with more clearly defined competencies will help those considering a risk role to get an understanding of what such a career will…
