Martin Pergler is an expert in risk management and risk-informed decisionmaking (decisions under uncertainty). He is founder and principal at Balanced Risk Strategies, Ltd. and was previously Senior Risk Expert at McKinsey & Company. He currently lives in Ottawa, Canada, but serves clients worldwide and has in particular spent extended periods based in Chicago, Prague, Singapore, as well as Montréal.
The following is a selection of Martin's readily available articles and conference presentations as of late 2014; a fuller and more up to date list is maintained here. See also a periodic blog of ideas and events. - McKinsey on Finance, Making better decisions about the risks of capital projects, May 2014
- McKinsey Working Papers on Risk #51, Strategic commodity and cash-flow-at-risk modeling for corporates, November 2013
- YouTube interview at the Cambridge Judge Business School, Value of risk through informed tradeoffs, based on a talk at the Cambridge University Centre for Risk Studies Annual Summit, June 2013
- McKinsey Working Papers on Risk #49, The hypotenuse and corporate risk modeling, April 2013
- McKinsey Working Papers on Risk #44, Concrete steps for CFOs to improve strategic risk management, April 2013
- McKinsey Working Papers on Risk #40, ERM: What's different in the corporate world and why, December 2012, based on a presentation at the GARP annual conference in February 2012.
- The Conference Board Director Notes, Risk oversight practices: insights from corporate directors, September 2010
- McKinsey Quarterly, Risk: Seeing around the corners, October 2009
- McKinsey Quarterly, Reducing risk in your manufacturing footprint, April 2009, based on a more technical presentation at the "Real Options Valuation in the Global Economy" conference, Rio de Janeiro, July 2008.
In addition, the following are accessible to members/subscribers of the relevant channels (please search) - "Chinese Company Risk Management Transformation Is of Great Urgency”, article in China Business News, May 20, 2011 (in Mandarin)
- Presentations at the GARP annual conference in 2008 ("Moving from risk management to risk-informed decisionmaking") and 2009 ("Upgrading your risk assessment for uncertain times")
- Presentations at the AFP Executive Institute in 2008 ("Seeing around the corner: navigating today's risky world"), their Corporate Risk Forum in 2009 ("Identifying and understanding emerging risks"), and the Executive Institute again in 2011 ("The culture of risk")
- "As the greenback plummets, protection is possible", brief article in The Globe and Mail (March 2008)
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