Steve Begg
Emeritus Professor, University of Adelaide Steve Begg is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide with a focus on tools and processes for decision-making under uncertainty and project/portfolio economic evaluation. Before academia, he spent nearly 20 years in industry modelling uncertainty (including risk) and variability.
About this speaker
Steve Begg is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide. His focus is on: tools and processes for decision-making under uncertainty; project/asset and portfolio economic evaluation; and psychological factors in eliciting expert opinions – particularly, bias identification, impact quantification and mitigation.
Steve is a founder member of the Society of Decision Professionals and served on its Board 2014-2017. He is co-author, with Reidar Bratvold, of the book “Making Good Decisions”, and has given many industry short courses and workshops on decision-making topics.
Prior to academia he spent 19 years in industry in a variety of technical and management roles related to uncertainty (risk) and variability assessment/modelling, economic evaluation and decision-making. He has twice been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) on uncertainty & decision-making topics. In 2016 he received the SPE’s top global award for his work on biases in decision-making.