Danny’s research and industry engagement addresses systemic risks and how a manager can deal with them, risk aversion in capital investment, economic equilibria models, and optimisation methods. Danny is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies.

The risk centre’s mission is the study of systemic risk. Its outputs include a Taxonomy of Threats, which is a “universal” categorisation of shocks; a growing family of catastrophe scenarios that are used as management stress tests; and risk index of world cities, the Cambridge Global Risk Index, championed by Lloyd’s of London, which is a world first in quantifying economic loss, ‘GDP@Risk’, across a wide variety of threats, most of which are nonfinancial.

Daniel Ralph has a BSc from University of Melbourne and a MS and a PhD from University of Wisconsin.