About

Adrian Clements

Risk management consultant, educator, and researcher — recognised for turning enterprise risk into practical insight for boards, executives, and transformation teams across Europe and beyond.

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Adrian Clements

At a Glance

Experience

30+ years of board-level operational and risk leadership at ArcelorMittal, Tereos, and General Re

Recognition

IRM Global Risk Management Professional (2013) and StrategicRISK European Risk Manager of the Year (2009)

Published in

Criticaleye, StrategicRISK, Linklaters, The Economist, and Global Risk Magazine

Institutional roles

Certified Fellow, Institute of Risk Management; Senior Member, International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Based in

Munich / International

Biography

Practitioner-Led Risk Intelligence

Adrian Clements founded AMC to bridge the gap between theoretical risk frameworks and the practical realities of managing risk in complex, fast-moving organisations. With more than 30 years of board-level operational and risk leadership at ArcelorMittal and Tereos — two of Europe's largest industrial groups — he combines deep operational expertise with pragmatic governance insight.

His career has included Group-level risk and operational leadership at ArcelorMittal ($80B revenue, 150+ sites) and Tereos (€5B revenue, 49 plants), regular reporting to Executive Committees and boards, capital allocation oversight, and earlier captive insurance and alternative risk transfer work for major industrial clients at General Re.

In recent years he has continued this work as President & Managing Partner of AT-IPIC International Consulting, the boutique advisory practice he founded in 2019, advising industrial and energy sector clients including National Grid and DundeePrecious through the ATLAS Value Plan Methodology — alongside a 2023–2025 period as Chief Operating Officer of Hydreatio, a water security technology company.

He is recognised by the Institute of Risk Management as a Global Risk Management Professional and by StrategicRISK as European Risk Manager of the Year, and his speaking and writing have featured in FERMA, Mapfre Global Risk, RiskNet, MarcusEvans, The Economist, Linklaters, and Global Risk Magazine.

Adrian is a Certified Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management and a Senior Member of both the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His recent public presence also reflects 2020–2021 knowledge-centre articles and 2022 LinkedIn thought leadership on backcasting, operational risk, and macro-event preparedness.

Public Credentials

Recognition

Global Risk Management Professional (IRM, 2013) and European Risk Manager of the Year (StrategicRISK, 2009).

Speaking & influence

Recent 2026, 2023, and 2022 engagements include ERMINe, the IRM, Roehampton University/CIMA, Airmic, and Risk-In.

Institutional roles

Certified Fellow, Institute of Risk Management. Senior Member, International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Career Highlights

2019 — Present

President & Managing Partner, AT-IPIC International Consulting

Founded a boutique advisory practice specialising in operational performance transformation and risk governance for industrial and energy sector clients, including National Grid and DundeePrecious, through the ATLAS Value Plan Methodology.

2023 — 2025

Chief Operating Officer, Hydreatio

Drove operational strategy, governance framework, and go-to-market execution for an emerging water security technology company, alongside the AT-IPIC advisory practice.

2018 — 2019

Group Director, Operational & Risk, Tereos Group

Group-level leadership across Tereos's €5B global manufacturing portfolio — sugar, starch, and bioethanol operations spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America — including operational due diligence for acquisitions across 16 countries.

2002 — 2018

Group Head, Corporate Operational Risk, ArcelorMittal

Group-level accountability for the corporate operational risk framework across ArcelorMittal's $80B revenue, 150+ site global manufacturing estate, reporting to Group ExCo and the CTO committee. Recognised as a Global Risk Management Professional (2013) and European Risk Manager of the Year (2009) during this period.

1995 — 2002

Alternative Risk Transfer & Captive Specialist, General Re

Structured captive insurance and multi-year, multi-line risk financing solutions for major global industrial clients from Frankfurt, including assignments for Siemens, Adidas, Bayer, and Microsoft.

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