Society for Risk Analysis

Dr. North is a long-time member of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). He joined the year after SRA was founded. He is a past president (1991-92) and the 1999 recipient of the Outstanding Risk Practitioner Award.

Dr. North speaking at Belgian Senate
Dr. North with Stanford University Professor Kenneth Arrow, at the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on December 7, 2009. Professor Arrow received SRA's Distinguished Achievement Award to add to his Nobel Prize in Economics. Dr. North introduced him for his plenary address.

In April 2008 Dr. North became the Area Editor for decision sciences for Risk Analysis, an international journal, published by the Society for Risk Analysis. He continues to serve on the Editorial Board.

Dr. North organized and wrote the introduction for a special issue published September 2016 on health risk analysis for criteria air pollutants.

He has written an introductory commentary for a survey article on risk from space weather in the February 2017 issue.

His book review of five more books of interest to the risk analysis community was published in the February 2014 issue of Risk Analysis: Marc Gerstein, Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental, Nancy G. Leveson, Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety, Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail but Some Don't, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, James Owen Weatherall, The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable. (At the Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting in December 2014, Dr. North was given an award as "best book reviewer.")

The July 2012 issue of Risk Analysis features a profile of Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman. Dr. North's review of Professor Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow (plus two other related books on risk from the viewpoint of cognitive psychology) is in this issue.

Dr. North's comments on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill appear in the SRA RISK Newsletter, 3rd Quarter 2010, page 6, as part of a series of comments by SRA past presidents.

SRA Symposium, 2006

Dr. North participated in a Public Forum May 23-24, 2006 at the Cafritz Conference Center at George Washington University in Washington D.C., organized by the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), on the Risk Assessment Bulletin giving guidance for Federal Agency practice on risk assessment, proposed by the Office of Management.