Joanna Makomaski is Risk Professional of the Year
Published on Monday, April 18, 2016
London – Ms. Joanna Makomaski won the prestigious Risk Management Professional of the Year award when the Institute of Risk Management unveiled its 2016 IRM Global Risk Award winners during a ceremony in London, United Kingdom, on April 15, 2016.
About Joanna Makomaski
Joanna Makomaski is an internationally recognized senior executive and enterprise risk management (ERM) specialist with more than 18 years of experience in the energy, healthcare, and sporting event sectors.
Most recently, Joanna served as the Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management with the Toronto 2015 Organizing Committee of the Pan/Parapan American Games:
Her focus was on instilling Games-wide disciplines of identifying and assessing risk, and ensuring the most appropriate risk response strategies. Other responsibilities included internal audit, health and safety, insurance and claims management.
Ms. Makomaski also served as Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at HealthNow New York, Inc. in New York, responsible for the development of the company’s ERM and compliance program. She previously served as Principal and Senior ERM specialist for V3 Advisory Group and as a Risk Manager for Enbridge Inc.
In June 2007, Makomaski was chosen as one the “100 most influential people in finance” recognized for “elevating risk management to rocket science” by Treasury and Risk magazine.
Ms. Makomaski is an instructor of Enterprise Risk Management principles globally, and a staff columnist for Risk and Insurance magazine. She has been an active member of the Risk and Insurance Management Society’s ERM Development Committee. Joanna is a certified risk management professional and a licensed professional engineer.
About the IRM Global Risk Awards
Run by the world's leading professional body for risk management, IRM’s Global Risk Awards are the risk world's answer to the Oscars and provide unique international recognition of risk management excellence. With a cross-continent judging panel of more than 30 leading risk management practitioners and academics, the Global Risk Awards represent the pinnacle of achievement for risk professionals, teams and organisations from across the world. Competition is fierce and judges are astonished by the quality and range of entries from Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, from a huge variety of sectors and types of organisations. To learn more about the 2016 IRM Global Risk Award recipients, please access the following website:
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is the world’s leading enterprise-wide risk education institute. They are independent, well-respected advocates of the risk profession, owned by practising risk professionals. The IRM passionately believes in the importance of risk management and that investment in education and continuing professional development leads to more effective risk management. They provide qualifications, short courses and events at a range of levels from introductory to expert. The IRM supports risk professionals by providing the skills and tools needed to put theory into practice in order to deal with the demands of a constantly changing, sophisticated and challenging business setting. They operate internationally, with members and students in over 100 countries, drawn from a variety of risk-related disciplines and a wide range of industries. As a not-for-profit organisation, the IRM reinvests any surplus from its activities in the development of international qualifications, membership, short courses and events. For more information on the IRM, please visit:
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