Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   Justin interviews guest Typhaine Beaupérin, CEO of FERMA. Typhaine speaks of her career and how she came to lead the Federation of European Risk Management Associations. They discuss the fast-changing role of risk managers and how it is essential for connections between RIMS, FERMA, and other associations for risk managers to share knowledge, experiences, and practices to meet challenges and take advantage of opportunities. Typhaine tells of the FERMA Forum in Madrid in October and the 2024 International Risk Manager Survey conducted by FERMA in partnership with PwC, open through March. The survey results will be reported in September and discussed at the FERMA Forum in October. Listen in to learn more about international partnerships to spread risk management knowledge and expertise.   Key Takeaways: [:01] About RIMScast. [:14] Public registration for RISKWORLD 2024 is now open. Explore infinite opportunities with RIMS from May 5th through May 8th, 2024, in San Diego, California. Register at RIMS.org/riskworld. [:31] About today’s episode of RIMScast. We will be joined by FERMA CEO Typhaine Beaupérin. [:50] The RIMS-CRMP is the only competency-based risk management credential. That matters because earning the certification shows employers and recruiters that you have the skills necessary to manage risk and create value for your organization. [1:06] Several Exam Prep virtual workshops are coming up. On January 24th and 25th, there is a virtual event with PARIMA. There is another two-day follow-up workshop with PARIMA on March 19th and 20th. [1:22] The RIMS-CRMP-FED Exam Prep Virtual Workshop will be held on January 30th and February 1st. That’s a two-day course. Visit the certification page on RIMS.org for more information. A link is in this episode’s show notes. [1:40] RIMS is looking forward to RISKWORLD 2024 in sunny San Diego, California, from May 5th through May 8th, 2024. Public registration is open. Register today at RIMS.org/RISKWORLD and the link in this episode’s show notes. [1:57] FERMA is the Federation of European Risk Management Associations. We are delighted to be joined by FERMA CEO Typhaine Beaupérin to get her perspective on risk management at a macro- and a micro-level, We will also discuss the 2024 International Risk Manager Survey being conducted by FERMA in partnership with PWC. [2:26] Typhaine will also be at RISKWORLD 2024. We’re happy to do a quick plug for the FERMA Forum, which will be held from October 20th through the 22nd in Madrid, Spain. Some of RIMS leadership will be there and I hope that I get assigned to cover that event! [2:46] Typhaine Beaupérin, welcome to RIMScast! Typhaine is very happy to be on RIMScast! Typhaine joins us from Brussels, Belgium, where FERMA is based. [3:42] Typhaine started as a lobbyist almost 20 years ago, working in EU public affairs. She moved to Eurochambres, a federation of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, one of the main business organizations at the EU level focused on SMEs. She stayed for 10 years, leading advocacy for SMEs’ access to finance and markets. [4:21] In December 2015, Typhaine joined FERMA as its CEO. The president of FERMA at that time wanted to develop advocacy activities, so they needed someone with Typhaine’s expertise. That’s how she jumped into the world of risk management. She is passionate about it. [4:51] Before becoming the CEO of FERMA, Typhaine’s connection with risk management had been at the project level. At FERMA, she has a holistic, enterprise-wide risk management approach. She is concerned with ERM and Strategic Risk Management. [5:40] Risk managers are asked more and more to provide input to help the decision-making process of companies with strategic risk management. Strategic Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Management are often lumped together as SERM. [6:16] Typhaine says that the p