Rachel Briggs

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Rachel Briggs is a member of the Risk and Security Management Forum (RSMF) and the Foreign Policy Centre and is Head of International Programmes at Demos.

Briggs organised a convention on Risk and Security Management which took place between 14 December 2005 and 18 January 2006. The gathering was part of the Demos research project, 'Getting Down to Business: Aligning Security with Business Objectives' and speakers included Nikki Heath, CEO, SOE Academy; Linda Sharpe, Interim Chief Executive, Skills for Security; Professor Edward Borodzicz, Director, Centre for Risk, Crisis and Security Management, University of Portsmouth; and David Burrill, ...........

The project was supported by BP, British Airways, Control Risks Group, E.On, Group 4 Securicor Global Risks Ltd., HSBC, Kroll, Prudential, Qinetiq, and Shell. [1]

The Foreign Policy Centre have also published, 'Global Europe'[2] which stems from their project of the same name which aimed: " to provide concrete policy recommendations concerning the European Security Strategy and new initiatives for European action". An overview of its approach is set out in Global Europe: Implementing the European Security Strategy by Mark Leonard and Richard Gowan[3] which was produced in association with The British Council, The European Commission and Wilton Park ("an academically independent and non-profit-making Executive Agency of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Launched in 1946, it has become one of the world's leading centres for discussion of key international policy challenges, organising about 50 conferences a year while holding to the values of its founders to promote honest and open debate on the key issues."[4]