Richard Hancock

APAC Director, Crisis24

Richard Hancock is Crisis24’s Crisis and Security Consulting APAC Regional Director. He’s spent the last 34 years living and working in Asia, initially as an Inspector in Royal Hong Kong Police before transitioning across to the private sector as a crisis and security risk management consultant.

Richard has provided in-depth crisis risk mitigation advisory services to governments, NGOs and Fortune 500 companies, including crisis response, emergency planning, business continuity and corporate security training and team building. Richard has project managed mass personnel evacuation services across the MEA and provided embedded risk mitigation support for large scale projects aimed at protecting critical assets, including, but not limited to seaports, airports, new build mixed residential and commercial developments, international schools and oil refineries. Richard has undertaken ad-hoc risk and crisis management tasks in the Philippines since 1998.

Richard has advised on >55 insured and uninsured special risk response cases since 2012. These included kidnap for ransom, hijacking, extortion, wrongful detention, cyber extortion and missing persons. Several cases were in the Philippines involving criminal and terrorist threat actors.