Dr. Patrick McConnell is currently a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre (MAFC) in Sydney where he delivers Masters level risk management courses. With over thirty years' experience in IT and risk management, he has consulted to a number of major banks and corporations including Barclays, JP Morgan, Lehman among others and has consulted to the Australian government as Risk Management Subject Matter Expert. He has published many articles on risk and IT in academic and practitioner journals and in 2010, he developed and delivered an ISO 31000 course for a leading standards body.