Dr Chris Needham-Bennett

• MD Needhams1834 Ltd and Visiting Professor University College London
• Needhams 1834 Ltd, UK

Dr Chris Needham-Bennett is the Managing Director of Needhams 1834 Ltd. He has at various times been a corporate debt collector, (aged 17, steep learning curve), law student, (not for me), Iron Foundry Director, (proper job) a paratrooper (quite successful), a security manager at the BBC, (bored stupid), and for the last 30 years has run Needhams 1834 Ltd a resilience and risk consultancy which is based in London but works worldwide, (great fun).
Sometime in all that he did some academic study, and Chris is a Visting Professor at University College London where he lectures and supervises some master’s level students. He also became an Austrian qualified ski instructor. He is currently studying modern languages, French and German as an undergraduate with the Open University. (He hopes to graduate whilst still alive, 4 more years to go!).