Cesar Oboni

Cesar is a specialist in natural and man-made risk quantification and has extensive experience helping a diverse range of organizations to improve their understanding of risk exposures. Additionally, his mine closure experience encompasses strategic planning, closure project risk assessments, risk-adjusted cost evaluations, and water risk assessments.

Having lived and worked on three continents, Cesar has developed an exceptional combination of technical expertise and cross-cultural understanding, allowing him to offer a unique, integrated approach that includes societal acceptability, willingness-to-pay, and other social drivers. His focus is on fostering clients' social license to operate and corporate social responsibility while optimizing their risk exposures, ethics, and communication for value and sustainability. He has worked with metal and mining, insurance, transportation, harbor, sawmills, and industrial water treatment plants, and is also an advisor to investment funds for start-ups.

Cesar is the co-author of several books including Convergent Leadership‑Divergent Exposures: Climate Change, Resilience, Vulnerabilities, and Ethics and Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century. He has presented his research in over 45 papers at international conferences and symposiums. His contributions to the field earned him the 2010 Innovation Award from the Italian Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Cesar is the current co-chair of the Management & Economics Society (MES) of CIM.