About

The Risk Management Monitor is the official blog of Risk Management magazine and provides daily stories, commentary, interviews, podcasts and videos related to the world of risk management and insurance. The primary editors of the Risk Management Monitor are Jared Wade and Emily Holbrook with Morgan O’Rourke and Bill Coffin also contributing their own insights frequently.

Jared Wade is editor of Risk Management magazine and first came to the publication in 2002 as a college intern from St. John’s University. Since graduating with a degree in journalism, Jared has moved to Astoria, Queens, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in international relations at the City College of New York (CUNY) in hopes of writing more about global affairs. In his other lives, Jared has also blogged about basketball, written reports on nuclear disarmament and reported for the New York Daily News, where he once covered a homicide.

Emily Holbrook has been associate editor of Risk Management magazine since October 2008 and has taken a keen interest in the topic since her arrival. Originally hailing from New Jersey, Emily has spent much of the past decade in Florida where, among other things, she graduated from the University of Central Florida with concentrations in Finance and English. She lives in Brooklyn where she enjoys stroller-counting.

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Morgan O’Rourke is editor in chief of Risk Management magazine and has been with the publication since leaving Fenestration magazine in 2002. Morgan graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with a degree in communications and lives on Long Island, where he was born and raised. In his spare time, he enjoys being an audiophile and having his heart broken every September by the Mets.

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Bill Coffin is publisher and editorial director of Risk Management magazine and also serves as director of publications for the Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS). Bill has more than ten years of industry experience working for both RIMS and A.M. Best and also recently published the novel Pax Morgana, the first of his three-part series about King Arthur. After growing up in Pennsylvania, Bill left first for Virginia, where he graduated from Washington and Lee University, and then on to New Jersey, where he now lives with wife and two beautiful kids, Fiona and Connor (who is pictured here with his dad in Dublin).