Dr Bill Durodié is the Senior Fellow coordinating the Health and Human Security research programme in the Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he teaches a course on ‘The Politics of Risk’ as part of the Masters programme.

He previously coordinated the Homeland Defence research programme in the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS) there, during which time he organised the 3rd Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO), and the conference ‘Therapy Culture Revisited: The Impact of the Language of Therapy on Public Policy and Social Resilience’, as well as writing policy briefs on various topics pertaining to societal resilience for the Ministry of National Development (MND).

He is an Associate Fellow of the International Security Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Chatham House in London, having also completed three years as Senior Lecturer in Risk and Corporate Security in the Resilience Centre of Cranfield University, part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom at Shrivenham. Prior to that he was Director of the International Centre for Security Analysis, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, within the War Studies Group of King’s College London.

His main research interest is into the causes and consequences of our contemporary consciousness of risk. He is also interested in examining the erosion of expertise, the demoralisation of élites, the limitations of risk management and the precautionary principle, and the growing demand to engage the public in dialogue and decision-making in relation to science.

Durodié was educated at the Royal College of Science, part of Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, and New College Oxford, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. In 2007 he was also awarded a PhD by Public Works from Middlesex University.

He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He has previously been a Member of the Society for Risk Analysis, and an Advisory Forum Member of the Scientific Alliance.

Durodié’s work has appeared and been commented on in a wide range of publications, and he is regularly requested to provide expert commentary for television and radio broadcasts. He appeared in the BAFTA award-winning BBC documentary series produced by Adam Curtis: The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.

A transcript of his September 2006 interview with the Australian broadcaster Robyn Williams for ‘In Conversation’ on ABC Radio National is available here.

A video podcast of his lecture ‘Resilience in the Face of Terrorism’ given on 9 March 2007 at the University of Warwick Business School is available here.

Durodié was one of the founding members of the Manifesto Club, a network of individuals celebrating human achievement and challenging social, cultural and political pessimism.