Article by Adam Duckett ICHEME President Stephen Richardson has recommended to a House of Lords select committee that systems thinking skills should be mandatory in engineering education for effective risk management. The oil and gas expert and Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London was joined by nuclear expert Dame Sue Ion, who is an Honorary Fellow of IChemE and Honorary President at the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. They were invited to give evidence virtually, on 10 March, to the Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee, regarding the resilience and risks within these sectors, as well as the challenges in developing and implementing risk assessment processes.