Professor Helga Drummond

Helga Drummond was Visiting Professor of Business in 2014-2015 and Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Liverpool Management School.

Professor Drummond is an Independent Member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Committee (DSAC), which advises the Ministry of Defence on science and technology. Professor Drummond is also Lay Member the Licence Committee of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the General Optical Council Fitness to Practice Committee and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Discipline Committee. Past external appointments include Non-Executive Director of two executive agencies of the Ministry of Defence, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Lay Member of the Joint Council of the Inns of Court.

As well as her wide-ranging articles for both academic and lay publications, her numerous books include The Economist Guide to Decision-Making (2012), Escalation in Decision-Making: Behavioural Economics in Business (2011) and How to be a Successful Entrepreneur (2009).

Most of Professor Drummond’s research has centred upon decision-making amidst risk and uncertainty. Her studies have ranged from high profile business failures, such as the collapse of Barings’ Bank, to that of a dilapidated hairdressers’ shop. She has delivered invited lectures on these topics at a wide range leading institutions, including LSE, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, the Defence Academy and the British Legal Association.