A Practitioner’s Journey from Operations to Training After more than three decades working in complex and often hostile environments, Andy Williams MSyl has turned his focus to preparing others for similar challenges — this time from the training room rather than the field. Drawing on a career in global security and risk management, he now helps course attendees translate their experience into meaningful employment within the commercial, humanitarian, and crisis management se

Why Security Responsibility Now Extends Beyond Specialist Roles As humanitarian contexts become increasingly complex, programme staff are often required to make decisions that directly affect the safety of their teams, operations, and communities — frequently without formal training in security, risk, or crisis management. In many organisations, risk ownership has shifted well beyond specialist roles, placing significant responsibility on programme managers, field coordinator