RISK newsletter:
Kemp Is SRA-Europe President

Source: The Society for Risk Analysis' RISK newsletter, Third Quarter 1995

The new president of SRA-Europe is Ray Kemp, who also recently became director of risk management with the London-based international environmental consulting firm EnTec UK Ltd. He was formerly a managing principal with the engineering consultants Dames and Moore in London. He specializes in controversial projects and has extensive experience in working with government and industry in the United Kingdom and Europe on major developments with environmental impact and risk implications.

President Kemp, a member of SRA-Europe since 1988, is committed to the principles and objectives of the Society for Risk Analysis and wants to see its membership develop throughout the evolving European region. "I am particularly keen to find ways of encouraging both practitioners and young scholars in the field of risk assessment to join the Society and to develop their analytic and communication skills in tackling practical environmental problems," he said.

After receiving his doctorate in planning and the nuclear industry from the University of Wales in Cardiff, Kemp worked on the Sizewell Inquiry Review Project at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and later joined the university's Environmental Risk Assessment Unit as its first post-doctoral researcher, specializing in the public acceptance of risk, risk perception, and risk communication for a number of environmental problems. He also became a lecturer in planning and environmental risk assessment and later the coordinator of the university's World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Risk Assessment and Communication.

In 1992, SRA elected Kemp as a councilor, his term ending this year. SRA-Europe elected him to its Executive Committee in 1994, and he has also served on the organizing committees of three SRA-Europe conferences.

Executive Committee Members

Current members of the SRA-Europe Executive Committee include the secretary, Britt-Marie Drottz Sjöberg of the Stockholm School of Economics' Center for Risk Research in Sweden; the treasurer, Martin Brüstlein of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG in Switzerland; the membership chair, Catherina Zwetkoff of Faculté de Droit in Belgium; the publications and journal chair, Philippe Hubert of the Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire in France; Vitaly Eremenko of the Kurchatovsky Institute's Russian Research Center in the Russian Federation; Paolo Vestrucci of NIER in Italy; and the past president, Detlef Müller of Procter & Gamble GmbH in Germany. Also on the committee are Ortwin Renn of the Center of Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg in Germany, who organized the 1995 SRA-Europe Annual Meeting, and Ragnar Löfstedt of the University of Surrey's Centre for Environmental Strategy in the United Kingdom, who is organizing the 1996 Annual Meeting.

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