Franco Oboni
Franco heads Riskope, an international practice on Risk and Crisis Management based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a consultant, coach, author of over fifty papers and co-authoring of the 2007 book entitled: “Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management”. Franco regularly gives seminars, and workshops worldwide. Clients include the UNDP, World Bank, Teck and several international mining companies, Canadian National, Union Pacific, Codelco, the Port of Oakland, Cartier, Ferrero Chocolate, a European Army and numerous communities, regional and provincial governments.
Franco has managed a broad range of risk and crisis mitigation projects, risk and security audits and geo-environmental hazard mitigation studies, as well as planning and management of a wide variety of multi-disciplinary studies. Consulting and teaching have brought Franco to work in four continents. Projects have included definition of needs, training for corporate clients, negotiations with community leaders, as well as the preparation of monitoring programs, Risk Assessments and Optimum Risk Estimates (ORE, the flagship product of Riskope).
Franco has been involved in risk and hazard analyses for a number of large facilities and organizations, including communities, mining, mine-clearance, military, food and non-food industries, large linear facilities (railroads, highways, pipelines, tunnels, power lines) and large hydropower projects (dams, reservoirs and pen-stocks) allowing his courses to convey a wide array of concrete examples, to deliver on-site emergency consultation, develop forensic and expert witness reports and troubleshooting.
Franco taught twice a year a three days course at the University of British Columbia on “Design of Risk Management Systems” between 1997 and 1999 (Continuing Education). Now he delivers his customized seminars directly to interested industrial corporations (among his clients are BC Hydro, Mitsubishi Motor Company, Japan Metal Mining Association, to name but a few).
Franco was co-recipients of the Italian Canadian Chamber of Commerce (Canada West) 2010 Innovation Award.
Brian
/ October 28, 2009Re: “The Hoax” Intersect,
Hello Franco,
I have spent sometime here. Fascinating work. I will take a peak at your book as promised and agreed.
I left a msg for your partner, (son?) concerning possible research intersections and synergies. If he comes from you then these are thoughts I am sure you may have considered… the idea that a inverted mirror (top or bottom half of a chalice) image of human systems Risk Education and Mitigation is Human-Systems Evolution Education and Managment. Not normally said or juxtaposed within the same or conversational context, abstract indeed, but possibly full of meaningful and forthcoming sychronicities, or not.
Caoi,
Brian