Core Issues in Regulatory & Risk-Control Practice [CIRRP]

Core Issues in Regulatory & Risk-Control Practice [CIRRP]

25-28th of March 2024

The CIRRP seminar covers fundamental questions in regulatory design as well as examining specific contemporary puzzles currently demanding attention from Australasian regulatory bodies. It thus provides a suitable orientation for newcomers to the regulatory business, appropriate for practitioners at any rank—from the front line to the Boardroom and every level of management in between.  It also offers seasoned regulatory professionals an opportunity to examine the broad array of possibilities in regulatory strategy and practice, and to use that richer picture as backdrop for reflecting on their own past experience and considering their future aspirations and plans.

Please note that this program emphasises management and practice of risk-control operations (i.e., regulatory practice) as opposed to the reform of law itself (regulatory policy). It is also oriented more towards social regulation (provision of safety, health, & security) rather than economic regulation (managing the efficient functioning of specific markets).

You will have opportunities, both during class discussions and outside class-time, to raise other issues you currently face and to draw on your own professional experience.

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By the end of this seminar, you will know how to:

• The relationship between compliance management and risk-control objectives
• What it means to be a “risk-based regulator”
• Four different types of work—functional work, process-based work, problem-based work, and crisis response—and how they all fit together
• The role that values play in governing regulatory decision-making 
• Defining and measuring success - The evolving nature of the regulatory performance account
• Special (“Wicked”) classes of Harms which complicate the task of controlling them
• How professional regulators can respond constructively to “de-regulatory” pressures

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Meet your expert facilitator:

Professor Malcolm K Sparrow
Professor of the Practice of Public Management
John F Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Malcolm K Sparrow is a leading international expert in regulatory and enforcement strategy, security and risk control. Malcolm is the Professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and he is Faculty Chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.” 

Professor Sparrow served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He has conducted internal affairs investigations, commanded a tactical firearms unit, and has extensive experience with criminal investigation. His research interests include regulatory and enforcement strategy, fraud control, corruption control, and operational risk management. He is also a patent-holding inventor, and dead serious at tennis.

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