Professor Paul Ekblom is a leading authority on crime and its prevention. He has committed his career to developing frameworks and toolkits that can be used to guiding the work of security practitioners. He has even located these on a free to use website: www.crimeframeworks.com. They are diverse and cover many aspects. After a career as a criminological researcher at the UK Home Office, he was appointed Professor of Design Against Crime at the University of the Arts London (UAL) based in the Design Against Crime Research Centre (now Design Against Crime Research Lab), Central Saint Martins. He now continues to collaborate as Professor Emeritus at UAL.

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Victoria Ekhmou is an experienced security professional having started work in security in the early 1990s and is now one of the leading authorities on security in Africa. She is Board Certified by the Professional Certification Board of ASIS International as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and has expertise in a range of specialisms including guarding and counter-terrorism expert. She manages her own business which extends overseas. Victoria is a prolific volunteer and has held a range of positions in different security associations, and also a multi award winner (including Lifetime Achievement at the Nigeria OSPAs).

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Peter has a distinguished career in association management. Despite overseeing and spearheading transformational change in his eight plus years as the CEO of ASIS International the Global Board of Directors decided it wants a new type of leader and has recently announced the appointment of William “Bill” Tenney.

In this interview Peter discusses his reflections on the role; the skillsets he believes are most important in bringing about transformational change; his thoughts about the security sector and its leaders; how security compares to other areas of business activity; the role of associations generally and security specifically and where they are heading; and his own aims for the future. You can also find out which security professional most influenced him; and which book; and what he considers the priority issue the security sector needs to focus on to change for the better.

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