A5056871771- Risk Perception and Management
- Biotechnology and Related Fields
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Risk and Safety Analysis
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Information and Cyber Security
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Space Satellite Systems and Control
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Space exploration and regulation
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Risk Management in Financial Firms
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Disaster Management and Resilience
International Risk Governance Council
2012-2024
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2017-2023
IEEE Computer Society
2019
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2019
Regional Municipality of Niagara
2019
Ithaka Harbors
2018
Digitalization is changing society by the increased connectivity and networking that digital technologies enable, such as enhancing communication, services, trade. Increasingly, policymakers within various national governments international organizations United Nations (UN) Organization for Economic Co-operation Development (OECD) are examining original sustainability policy concepts applied Brundtland Report of 1987 through lens digitalization. While growth a economy may increase...
The IRGC Framework recommends a holistic, multidisciplinary and multistakeholder approach to risk. It supports processes that aim provide structure scientific evidence about risk in societal context. helps decision-makers analyse the major ambiguities controversies may affect management of provides guidance cope with risks situations high complexity, uncertainty or ambiguity. can support detection current potential deficits within governance process, for their remediation. Its application...
Abstract Regulatory agencies have long adopted a three‐tier framework for risk assessment. We build on this structure to propose tiered approach resilience assessment that can be integrated into the existing regulatory processes. Comprehensive approaches assessing at appropriate and operational scales, reconciling analytical complexity as needed with stakeholder needs resources available, ultimately creating actionable recommendations enhance are still lacking. Our proposed consists of tiers...
The COVID-19 outbreak was neither unpredictable nor unforeseen, yet it blind-sided policymakers when emerged, leading to unprecedented global restrictions on human activity and almost certainly triggering the first economic contraction since WWII. This paper considers key factors in eruption of crisis, as well lessons that should be learned from it. begins with an outline COVID-19's spread, highlighting six drivers have determined its severity: exponential pace transmission,...
An edited collection of authored pieces comparing, contrasting, and integrating risk resilience with an emphasis on ways to measure
The fast-paced field of synthetic biology is fundamentally changing the global biosecurity framework. Current regulations and strategies are based on previous governance paradigms for pathogen-oriented security, recombinant DNA research, broader concerns related to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Many scholarly discussions practitioners therefore concerned that outpaces established biosafety measures prevent deliberate malicious or inadvertent accidental misuse biology's processes...
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have the capacity to improve how many companies organizations conduct transactions or store information securely, among other potential benefits. However, their development implementation does not occur in a contextual vacuum instead must adapt needs requirements of given user. As such, we argue that governance DLT blockchain be applied against two core questions: who should access within DLT/blockchain, management system open...
With this report, IRGC aims to raise awareness among professionals about the fact that risks emerge from a common “fertile ground” is cultivated by twelve generic “contributing factors”. defines and illustrates these factors, which are applicable across multiple domains. An understanding of factors will provide practitioners with insights help anticipate better manage them at early phase. While origins emerging often require basic physical life sciences, several identified in report have...
Risk governance (RG) is concerned with processes and principles to improve the management of risk. When implemented deal risks from new technologies, it must also contribute enhancing innovation, rather than constraining it, in such a way that innovation itself can reducing risks. To increase its relevance some challenges managers face, RG constantly adapt objectives priorities organisations, as well their supporting values. One these Europe elsewhere organisations develop research...
As a follow up to the development of International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) risk governance framework with Prof. Ortwin Renn, IRGC has focused its attention on identifying commonly recurring 'deficits' in – defined as deficiencies or failures structures and processes understand their causes how they can be prevented mitigated through improved assessment, management communication. This article summarises two recently published reports. It presents concept deficit it used. gives brief...
Based on concerns that unconventional gas development is occurring despite much uncertainty about its potential impacts the environment, climate, economy and society IRGC offers recommendations relating to assessing managing risks involved in of this resource. The goal by applying these recommended actions, will be significantly reduced while benefits utilizing newly available resource strengthened.
The IRGC Guidelines for Emerging Risk Governance describe key steps and associated methodologies early identification management of emerging risks. process proposed in this report covers an overarching, flexible adaptable set guidelines designed to deal with complex, evolving uncertain environments.
Where hybrid threats represent potential disruptions to interlaced and interdependent systems within national local governments, companies, even individual households, methodologies are needed help identify understand 1) the source of disruptions; 2) system vulnerabilities they exploit with varying degrees success; 3) for cascading harms infrastructure, information systems, social harmony cohesion should a threat be successful. The need such is particularly salient given rise cyberhacking,...
We question the values that inform artificial intelligence (AI) strategies developed by governments and institutions at global level. In particular, we investigate connection between governments? institutions? fundamental values, second-order associated with AI, emerging from analysis of AI strategies.
With this concept note, IRGC intends to help improve the understanding and governance of emerging risks that have impacts on human health safety, environment, economy society at large. It draws from a roundtable discussion in 2009 about why how emerge, looking particular sources, drivers issues.
This article aims to provide an interpretive display of the strategic stance toward innovation enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) different governments based in Europe. The analysis includes European Union (EU), some its members as well a non-member country, which we argue presents interesting characteristics. Based on comprehensive corpus documents, national strategies, external reports web resources, countries considered this are subsequently classified using lens, among other...