LMI Lecture: Prof. Laurence J. Alison - Least Worst First Decision Making

Professor Alison MBE focuses on high profile critical and major incidents from disaster management to terrorism. He has over 30 years of experience working on applied projects for Law enforcement and the security services. He currently provides training to FBI/CIA/DoD, The UKs National CT interviewing cadre and the British Army in the ORBIT framework for rapport-based interrogation methods.

He was key psychological advisor on over 450 critical and major incidents debriefs including the 7/7 bombings, the Sharm El Sheik attacks, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the preparations for the London Olympics. He was key advisor and research on a child sexual exploitation project that resulted in the largest operation in UK police history and which, across a 6-month period, led to the arrest of over 1,200 offenders, the safeguarding of over 1,000 children and a cost saving to UK government of £15 million. He has over 200 published articles, books, edited books and government and industry reports.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2020 for services to critical incident handling and to the NHS during COVID-19

He is currently working on projects associated with decision making and choice selection in environments where all choices look bad. A consequence of this is very often decision inertia - a failure to act in time (or at all). Laurence will discuss approaches to avoid decision inertia and touch briefly on how this may be augmented by future technologies.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Liverpool Medical Institution & Conference Centre, 114 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, United Kingdom