Simon Ashley Bennett teaches risk management at the University of Leicester, England. He is interested in the organisational, social, economic and political origins of risk. For example, loss of organisational memory, mindlessness, groupthink, corruption, political instability, terrorism and war. He is a member of the Air Safety Group of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. His books include Systems-thinking for Safety (2019) and Atomic Blackmail? The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities during the Russia-Ukraine War (2023).