Risk management associations from Russia and Sweden have been accepted as the latest members of the Federation of European Risk Managements Associations (Ferma).
Their admission brings the total Ferma membership to 13.
In addition, four more individual or adherent members have been accepted into the federation. The new members are form Poland, the Czech Republic, Canada and the US.
Ferma said it was seeing increasing interest in risk management throughout Europe.
The new Russian member is RusRisk, the Russian Risk Management Association, which was founded in 2003. The association has 23 members.
The new Swedish member is Swerma, formed in February 2003. It currently has 25 risk members and 16 non-risk members.
Ferma president Thierry van Santen, said: “Ferma has now added five new associations and four countries within three years, plus many new individual members. This shows clearly the success of Ferma’s efforts to promote risk management discipline throughout ‘Greater Europe’.
“It reflects also the true emergence of the risk management as a tangible management tool that adds real value.
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