Season 1, Episode 5 – Part 1:

Alexander Larsen Meets Aarn Wennekers in Qatar

This Episode of Risk Managers Getting Coffee was filmed in Qatar with Aarn Wennekers speaking about his career from Oil and Gas in Canada to getting an education in a field that interested him before moving to Qatar and progressing from Audit to Governance and Risk Management.

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Episode Content

00:45 – Aarn talks about being a jack-of-all trades. He speaks about his History degree and early jobs and how that set him up for his career.

02:35 – Aarn discusses joining QP in Qatar and how improvements in Audit led to governance involvement and eventually to risk management for minister of energy.

03:50 – Aarn brings in his experience of business continuity and crisis management and why its so important to ensure integration with risk management.

04:25 – Aarn discusses his experience of working in Qatar and realising its such a multicultural place to work and as a result people need to adapt to this. He also discusses the nature of Qatari’s and how safe the country is

05:25 – The Institute of Risk Management has an active group in Qatar, one that is impressive and Aarn discusses why he believes the group is so successful

In this episode, Alexander Larsen met Aarn Wennekers in Qatar. The backdrop is the City of Doha. Aarn support teams with a deep contextual understanding of leadership team and performance dynamics gained by coaching and advising 40 multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary Boards and Executive Leadership (C-suite) Teams since 1996 at tech start-ups to a multi-billion revenue fully integrated National Energy conglomerate since 2010.

He has worked for Ministries and government authorities in Governance roles, risk roles as well as audit roles both in Qatar as well as in Canada and has a wealth of experience. His advisory ability at board levels and senior executive levels have allowed him to excel in the companies he has worked in.