Simon Ashby

Dr Simon Ashby - ()

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Financial Services, School of Management (Plymouth Business School)
Address: Room 231a, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Postal address: Room 231a, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585720
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 585720
Email: simon.ashby@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Teaching and research, primarily in the field of Financial Services

Qualifications & background
I have had a varied career working in the university sector, as a financial services regulator, and more recently as a senior risk manager within a number of financial institutions.

In terms of academic qualificatiojns I have the following:

PhD (in the field of Risk Management), University of Nottingham
BA (Hons) Industrial Economics, University of Nottingham

Professional membership
Fellow of the Institute of Operational Risk (FIOR)
Graduate of the Institute of Risk Management

Roles on external bodies
Former Director of the American Risk and Insurance Association
Former Director of the Operational Risk Research Forum

Teaching interests
Corporate risk management
Insurance company management
Financial services regulation
Financial services markets and strategy

Staff serving as external examiners
I have been an External Assessor for Glasgow Caledonian University

Research interests
I am interested in all aspects of corporate risk management and insurance. Notably I have done work in areas such as the role of insurance as a mitigant for operational risk, the concept of risk appetite, the strategic benefits of effective risk management, operational risk management and crisis management.

In addition I am currently conducting some research into the causes of the current banking crisis (the so called credit crunch) and the optimum regulatory response in relation to the prevention of future financial crises.

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Maritime Logistics, Economics and Finance (CEMLEF)
Research Centre for Sustainable Leadership, Governance and Policy (SLGP)

Grants & contracts
Grant of £14,000 from the Financial Services Research Forum, to research the current banking crisis.

Publications

(2008) Operational Risk: Learning Lessons from Non-Financial Organisations Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Vol 1, No 4.

(2004) Workplace Risk, Establishment Size and Union Density (with P Fenn) British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol 42, No 3.

(2003) Industry Self Regulation: A Strategic Perspective on Voluntary Compliance (with S Chuah & R Hoffmann) International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol 11, No 1

(2003) New Trends in Operational Risk Insurance for Banks (with B Young) Advances in Operational Risk Management: Firm-Wide Issues for Financial Institutions 2^nd Edition, Risk Books.

(2003) Lessons About Risk: Analysing the Causal Chain of Insurance Company Failure (with P Sharma & W McDonnell) Journal of Insurance Research and Practice, Vol 18, No 2.

(2001) New Trends in Operational Risk Insurance for Banks (with B Young) Global Reinsurance, October.

(2001) Insurance as a Mitigant for Operational Risk (with B Young) Advances in Operational Risk Management: Firm-Wide Issues for Financial Institutions, Risk Books.