Simon White

Simon White is recognised as a leading practitioner of risk analysis and management, who strives for clarity and pragmatism in his work.

Simon has been a risk management consultant for over 25 years helping organisations to understand and manage risk to their projects’ schedule and cost. He uses methods that allow probabilistic models to be interrogated and understood by project teams and senior management. Simon helps to ensure that risk assessments are reasonable representations of reality, and that they add value by setting and justifying reasonable expectation and positive management action.

Simon designed and built commercial risk software (Predict!, Arrisca, and a was a contributing architect to Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis( PertMaster), and continues to develop tools for more practical valuable project and business risk management.

Simon has worked in a wide variety of industries and major projects. He spent two years as UK Risk Analyst for ConocoPhillips, before which was Senior Risk Management Consultant and trainer for PertMaster, Primavera and Oracle.

Simon holds BA in Mathematics with Computation from Oxford University.