This category is open to individual in-house senior-level private and public sector corporate risk and insurance managers.

The Risk Manager of the Year award searches for the inspirational master of risk and insurance management. For this award we are seeking to recognise and highlight the combination of innovation, risk management best practice and the ability to foresee risks and prevent dangerous endgames.

The candidate will have an excellent all-round knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced by corporates and the skills to motivate, lead and innovate to create and execute successful risk management programmes.

This category is open to individual in-house private and public sector risk and insurance managers with less than five years’ experience.

The reputation of the risk management profession has been developed over the course of many years, however for this award we are seeking to acknowledge the stars of the future and someone with a fresh view on the profession.

The candidate will have a good knowledge and understanding of the successes and failures of the past, but more importantly will have an appetite for innovation to address the developing needs and challenges faced by corporates in today’s rapidly changing environment.

This category is open to individual in-house private and public sector corporate risk and insurance managers.

Innovation thrives in difficult economic times. This category will highlight fresh thinking from risk and insurance managers when tackling complex risk challenges. The award seeks to reward the innovation displayed by risk managers in achieving excellence to meet the needs of their firms.

The award will recognise the initiative that redefines the industry’s competitive landscape and raises the bar for innovation.

This category is open to individual private and public sector corporate risk and insurance managers.

Systemic risk represents the risk connected to the complete failure of a business, a sector, an industry, or the overall economy.

The corporate world today is highly interconnected and international, and so are the rising challenges of managing risk initiatives that have the potential to trigger severe instability or collapse an organisation. This requires fresh thinking to tackle these complex systemic risk challenges.

This award seeks to reward the innovation displayed by risk and insurance managers in achieving excellence to meet the challenges of managing systemic risks through advanced risk initiatives. It will recognise the initiative that redefines the industry’s competitive landscape and raises the bar for innovation.

This category is open to groups or teams of private and public sector corporate risk and insurance managers and their collaborative colleagues from within their organisation.

This category is open to in-house private and public sector individual risk and insurance managers or risk and insurance management teams and / or their collaborative colleagues from within their organisation, or external risk management consultants.

The ability of organisations to absorb and recover from shocks has been highlighted by recent events. A well executed business continuity programme can be the difference between success and failure. This award recognises the achievement of an individual or a team in creating a programme that is proven to be fit for purpose.

This category is open to private and public sector individual risk and insurance managers or risk and insurance management teams and / or their collaborative colleagues from within their organisation.

The judging tribunal will vote to award this honour to a person, team or company for a particular initiative which they believe has made an outstanding, significant and long lasting contribution to the risk and insurance management community.

This exceptional award will only be offered by the judges when an entry of a particularly high standard has been received.

There are no set criteria for this award.

This award is open to insurance firms only and is designed to reward companies that have truly made a lasting impact on innovation to meet their customer needs.

Fostering the themes of partnership and innovation, the winner of this award will not be judged on size or scale, but on their focus to addressing customer requirements though an entrepreneurial culture practiced throughout the organisation.

This award is open to broking firms only and is designed to reward firms that have made a lasting impact on their clients through innovation and customer service.

Fostering the themes of partnership and innovation, the winner of this award will be judged on their ability to be creative in addressing customer requirements and who encourage an entrepreneurial culture throughout their organisation.

Systemic risks represent significant challenges to the risk management community and often require pioneering innovation from their broker and insurer partners.

Open to both brokers and insurers, this category will highlight some of the key challenges faced by an ever-changing world and how close partnerships can help to foster product innovation to meet new risk parameters.

Global Programmes remains one of the key areas of concern and interest for risk managers in Europe and worldwide currently.

This award is open to both brokers and insurers and seeks to highlight innovative solutions for a fast-growing requirement.

This award is open to all firms who provide a service to the risk management community. It is designed to highlight the most innovative use of technology in designing, developing and executing industry-leading solutions that provide a significantly improved customer experience for risk managers.

This award is open to all firms who provide a service to the risk management community.

It is designed to highlight the most innovative use of claims management in designing, developing and executing industry-leading solutions and processes that provide a significantly improved customer experience for risk managers.

This award is open to risk manager associations, insurers, brokers, education bodies, e-learning providers and all firms who can demonstrate a commitment to supporting the development of skills and knowledge amongst risk managers through investing in an existing programme of activity.

A key topic that has become increasingly important is the development of education, skills and knowledge within the risk management and associated professions.

It reflects the fact that, in today's fast changing world, if risk managers are to remain competent, they must continue to develop and enhance their skills and knowledge. Associations, insurers, brokers and other providers of important services to the risk management community are embracing the drive for providing education and training support to risk managers at all stages of their careers.

Please provide details of the programme and demonstrable results for the effective and efficient training material.