Cesar Oboni

Affiliation

Oboni Riskope Associates Inc.

Biography

Cesar Henri Oboni is currently a risk analyst, consultant and Vice President of Oboni Riskope Associates Inc. based in Vancouver, BC (www.riskope.com). Over the past 15 years, Riskope has pioneered unique quantitative risk assessments for a broad range of organizations across diverse fields. In his current role (starting in 2014), Cesar specializes in natural and man-made risk and risk tolerance quantification delivering residual risks landscapes to companies and organizations allowing them to better understand their risk exposures, including societal acceptability, willingness to pay and other social drivers. His team’s seminal work improves an organisation’s social licence to operate and fosters corporate social responsibility across a wide range of operations including metal and mining, insurance, transportation, harbor, sawmills, and industrial water treatment plants. In his former role (from 2007 to 2014), as analyst and modeller for Riskope, Cesar was instrumental in developing risk tolerances and risk crisis and reputational quantification models and for diverse companies. In addition to his contributions to Riskope, Cesar is also an advisor in the area of risk assessment (in synergy with classic due diligence duties) for an angel investment fund for start-ups. He is also a Board member of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics (since the start of 2020), Co-chair Management and Economics Society of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, Vancouver chapter (since 2017), committee of Professional Risk Managers' International Association Vancouver chapter (since 2010). Cesar has lived on three continents and thus is experienced in multi-ethnic and cross-cultural settings.