Chief Executive Officer

Kimberley Turner is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Global Risk Alliance, an international risk management company, founded in Australia, which after fifteen years in operation, has offices and staff in Sydney, Canberra, Wellington, Shanghai, Mumbai and Washington DC.

As a certified practicing risk manager, Kimberley is heavily involved in promoting and advancing the discipline of risk management and has been dubbed a “risk management futurist” for her innovation, forward thinking and original leading concepts in the field.

Kimberley has pioneered the new field of Industry Risk Profiling for the aviation, healthcare, offshore oil and Defense industries in Australia, Canada and the United States of America. This work has been referenced in the National Aviation Policy White Paper 2009 in Australia, The Australian, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Canadian Commission into Offshore Oil Industry and Congress in the United States.  

As a risk management advocate, Kimberley regularly advises regulators, standards setting bodies, industry leaders and company executives and has been instrumental in enhancing international practices in industry oversight, corporate governance and risk management. She is a highly sort after speaker and regularly presents at conferences around the globe.  

Kimberley has lead and grown her organization, Global Risk Alliance to be recognized as a premier provider of risk management services and has worked with over 280 companies, in 16 countries since the company’s establishment. Among her many achievements, at the age of 24 Kimberley was a risk adviser to the counter-terrorism team for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and was awarded the Centenary Medal of Federation for service and leadership to the business community by the Prime Minister of Australia for her work in the risk management field.

Kimberley was nominated for RMIA’s 2010 Risk Manager of the Year award by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority for her work in developing Industry Risk Profiles for 47% of the Australian Aviation Industry. Kimberley has made a significant contribution to measurable risk reduction in the aviation industry and has been instrumental in establishing the Aviation Risk Network program that sets standards and practices for those organizations that wish to take their risk practices beyond compliance. This program currently supports over 40000 aviators and 11000 aircraft in the helicopter, war birds, gliding, hang-gliding, rotorcraft, experimental aircraft, hot air ballooning, parachuting and air ambulance industries in Canada, USA and Australia.

Kimberley has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of the International Graduate School of Risk Management, has been a regular guest lecturer in Risk Management at a number or leading Universities in Australasia, has authored three publications in risk management and is a previous Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year recipient.