Think like risk managers: Ron Dembo at TEDxNYIT

The former founder and CEO of a successful risk management software company, former Management and Computer Science professor at Yale, and now Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, Dembo focuses on how we can use RiskThinking to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In recent talks and publications, Dembo has focused on the untapped resource he sees in citizen engagement and its relationship to resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change.

Dembo began his career as an academic at Yale. Later, he founded and built Algorithmics Inc. into the world's largest enterprise risk management software company until it was sold to Fitch in 2005 and then to IBM in 2012. Algorithmics was consistently honored as one of the 50 Best Managed Companies in Canada during his tenure. Honored as a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow in 2008 for his contribution to mathematics in Canada, he is also author of three books on risk management and has published numerous scientific research papers.

Dembo blogs for the Huffington Post and sits on numerous boards, including the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee Canada and the UN HABITAT World Urban Campaign Steering Committee.

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