Tim Cousins was born in England in 1958 and grew up in Ballarat, Australia. He was educated at The University of Melbourne and Monash University, has recently completed a Masters Degree at Swinburne University and has just embarked on further Post-graduate studies in Electricity Supply Engineering.  He became interested in the field of failure analysis and disaster recovery while working in hospital administration departments in the 1980's and set up his own consultancy in failure analysis in 1990.

Tim has accumulated 15 years of hands-on field experience in Post Disaster processes in large and small businesses, consulting to Insurance companies as well as businesses affected by a loss. In 1999 he was commissioned by a Major International Insurer, to coordinate the technical investigation and the assessment of the adequacy of the recovery response to any Y2K related incident that might arise as a claim from any of the major Australian financial institutions or the numerous large manufacturing plants in South East Asia and New Zealand amongst the insurer's underwriting risks.

Tim has gained an international reputation through his consulting work both here and overseas. He has published numerous feature articles and writes a regular column in the Insurance and Risk Professional magazine. He is sought after as a keynote speaker by special interest groups in the business and insurance industries and has presented at a number of international conferences, workshops and events.

Mr. Cousins is a NAFI Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator 
Reg: 10797-5274

Membership to Professional Bodies:

	EWB - Engineers without Borders Australia
	SSIT - Society on Social Implications of Technology (Committee Member)
	IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Member No: 80362756
	EESA - Electrical Energy Society of Australia (Engineers Australia) Member No: 3002773
	NAFI - National Association of Fire Investigators Member No: 10797 - Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator No: 10797-5274
	FPA - Fire Protection Association Australia Member No: 9727
	BCMIE - Business Continuity Management Information Exchange  (Australian Chapter of the DRIE - Disaster Recovery Information Exchange) Member No: 0013
	MPA - Managers and Professionals Association Member No: 698488
	ACA - Australian Corrosion Association Member No: 4687

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