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- Introduction
- Speakers
- Background reports
- Further reading
- Presentations
- Report
Practical information for delegates
For download:
About the Conference:
Risk permeates all aspects of life. A professional
management of uncertainty is essential for the resilience and
effectiveness of all organizations, be they governmental or
business.
The Conference is organized to promote an exchange
of experience on the use of risk assessment and management
techniques in:
- technical regulations;
- standards;
- conformity assessment;
- accreditation;
- metrology;
- market surveillance.
The Conference will benefit from
input from academia, governmental authorities, international
standards organizations, conformity assessment bodies and business
associations. The following topics will be discussed:
- How can risk assessment and management methodologies be used
as a basis for the choice of technical regulation objectives?
- Implementing risk management standards and methodologies in
business strategies
- Risk assessment in the choice of conformity assessment
options: suppliers' declaration of conformity vs third party
assessment
- Mitigating risks on the markets for consumer products: risk
assessment options and market surveillance authorities
- Risk Management at Customs: how to balance trade facilitation
and safety?
- Sustainable development and social responsibility: managing
ecological risks, consumer protection, and occupational
hazards
- Certification schemes in risk management.
Please contact
the Secretariat for more details.
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OPENING SESSION: Keynote Speakers |
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Ján Kubiš
Jan Kubiš is the Executive
Secretary of the UNECE.
A graduate of the Moscow State Institute
of International Relations, he served as Minister for Foreign
Affairs of Slovakia, as Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of
the Council of Europe, and as Secretary-General of the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) during the period from
1999 to January 2009. Among his previous functions, Mr. Kubiš was
the European Union's Special Representative for Central Asia,
Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of OSCE for
Central Asia, and Director of OSCE’s Conflict Prevention Centre. |
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Robert Steele
Mr. Robert Steele took up his functions as ISO Secretary-General on 1 January 2009. He has played a key role in the development of policies that sustain the global relevance of international standards, both in New Zealand and internationally. Prior to his current position, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Standards New Zealand, was a member of the New Zealand Institute of Directors and a fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management. Internationally, Mr. Steele was a member of the ISO Council, represented Standards New Zealand on the ISO Technical Management Board, and was Secretary of the Pacific Area Standards Congress. |
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Christer Arvius
Chairperson, Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies
Mr. Christer Arvíus is Director and Head of the Department for Internal Market and
Technical Rules at the Swedish National Board of Trade1. He has a long experience
in international trade, trade policy and management. His work covers matters related
to the EU Internal Market, EU external trade relations and global trade and trade
policy. During the period 1992 – 1995 he worked as Head of the Trade Policy Affairs
Division in the EFTA Secretariat, Brussels. He is a Swedish member in several international committees, fora, e.g.: the
WTO/TBT Committee; WP on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies
within the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Europe, UN/ECE (Chairman);
UN/ECE “START” Team (Chairman); ASEM (Asia European Meetings) on Standards
and Conformity Assessment; EU Council Group for the negotiations with third
countries on mutual recognition agreements (133-MRA); EU Council Group on
Standardization; EU Group of Senior Officials for Standardization and Conformity
Assessment Policy (SOGS). He is also involved in technical cooperation activities
with third countries, e.g. in Central and Eastern European Countries and developing
countries in Africa, Asia and Central America.
On the national level he is i.a. a member of SIS-TK 316 Conformity Assessment;
member of the SIS General Assembly; member of the SEK General Assembly and
the Chairman of the Commission on Swedish Standards (NSS). |
SESSION 1: Approaches to risk-based regulation: Optimizing the cost of safety |
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Gretchen H. Stanton
Senior Counsellor in the Agriculture and Commodities Division of the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She joined the Secretariat of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1985. During the Uruguay Round negotiations, Gretchen served as the Chairman of the Working Group that negotiated the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the "SPS Agreement"). She is now Secretary of the WTO Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. Ms. Stanton previously also served as Secretary of the International Dairy Agreement of the WTO. She has been the Secretary of a number of GATT and WTO dispute settlement panels. Prior to joining the GATT, she worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agriculture Service in Washington, D.C. and in Mexico City. Gretchen, who is originally from Mexico, received a Master's Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Arizona. |
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Gregory Bounds
Policy Analyst, Regulatory Policy Division of the OECD. Gregory Bounds commenced with the Regulatory Policy Division of the OECD in January 2007, working on risk and regulatory policy, regulatory impact analysis and regulatory management practices in OECD countries. Previously he managed a program of regulation of third party access to monopoly infrastructure facilities, and periodic reviews of regulation with the Essential Services Commission (ESC), within the Government of the State of Victoria, Australia. Mr Bounds was a senior officer in the Victorian Office of Regulation Reform responsible for ensuring a whole of Government approach to regulatory quality. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
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Marco d'Ambrosio
Administrator at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry with significant experience on international regulatory matters in the field of industrial policy. Before working for the European Commission, he was responsible for industrial and trade matters within two large Italian business associations. He is currently responsible for the Technical Barriers to Trade aspects of Free Trade Agreements with Canada, India, Ukraine, ASEAN, Central America and Andean Community, as well as of TBT-related Regulatory Dialogues with Japan, Russia and India. |
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Valery Hurevich
Director of the Belarusian State Institute for Standardization and Certification (Minsk, Belarus). Field of
activity: development and improvement of the system for technical
normalization and standardization. Areas of scientific interest:
methodology of risk analysis, assessment and management in the field
of technical normalization and standardization. |
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Peter
Morfee
Peter Morfee is Principal Technical Adviser/Senior
Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Economic Development of New
Zealand. Peter is a graduate Electrical / Mechanical Engineer who
has over 20 years of experience in Electrical Safety Regulation,
leading 3 major legislative reforms. He has a wide range of
technical expertise and participation in regional Standard
development He has participated in NZ’s MRA negotiations with the
EU, APEC, Taiwan, Singapore, ASEAN and China where he has introduced
an increasing focus on Regulatory Compliance enhancement |
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Donald Macrae
Member, Risk and Regulation Advisory Council, UK. Before going independent in 2007 as a consultant in Regulation and Policy,
he was Director General for Law and Regulation in the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Amongst his recent consultancy work, he has been advising Brazil’s technical standards regulator, Inmetro, for over a year on applying Impact Assessment
to Conformity Assessment Procedures, in conjunction with the University of Sao Paulo. |
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Gerald Linke
Appointed on 1 September 2008 to Head of the Competence Center Gas Technology of E.ON Ruhrgas. During his career at Ruhrgas he served as: Responsible for the operation of all assets in the Ruhrgas Northern Region; as Head of Competence Center Pipelines for EON Ruhrgas overseeing the construction and integrity assessment of all EON Ruhrgas pipelines, and for R&D related to pipes and pipeline operation, maintenance and monitoring |
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Bernd Groh
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, joined E.ON Ruhrgas in 2005. He holds responsibilities for technical safety and risk related expertise and application of modelling techniques during incident investigation studies. He provided safety advice in conceptual risk assessment studies (HAZID, ALARP). As section manager he was held responsibilities for several R&D activities related to operating of natural gas transmission systems including underground storage sites and takes part in international collaborations of gas companies with regard to safety and risk related subjects and R&D actions. |
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Dr. Gennady Grozovkiy
Deputy Director of VNIINMASH (Moscow, Russian Federation), working in the field of safety machinery. He holds a PhD in Philosophy. Dr. Grozovskiy also lectures in many technical universities of Moscow and has over a hundred scientific publications |
SESSION 2: Market for consumer products: What role for risk management standards? |
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Carolyn Williams
Carolyn Williams MA ACII MIRM is Development Manager for the Institute of
Risk Management, the leading international educational and training
body for the risk management profession. She joined IRM in 2006 from
Lloyd’s of London, where she was responsible most recently for risk
management training and communication. She is also a member of the
Chartered Insurance Institute’s Qualifications, Examinations and
Assessments Committee. |
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Valentin Nikonov
PhD in Economics, Managing Director of the Growth Trajectory Consulting Company, ISO/IEC 9001:2008 Auditor, Certified Project Manager,
Coordinator of the organizing committee of the UNECE WP.6 International Conference on Risk Assessment and Management.
Valentin is the author of a book on Risk Management and of numerous articles on risk management, implementation and certification of integrated management systems,
information security and project portfolio management. |
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Irena Kogan
Irena Kogan’s expertise and knowledge reside in information technology management system development and implementation.
Being an IT professional with a list of successful IT projects, she is involved in the work of SQLink Group, Bank Mizrahi
Tefahot and Growth Trajectory Consulting Company |
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Evgeny K. Avanesov
Doctor of Business Administration in the field of Quality Management. He works as a Principal Auditor in the leading Certification Body of Russian Federation – “Test-Saint-Petersburg Co Ltd”. During his 15 years’ activity in this sector he has carried out more than 300 audits all over Russia and abroad. He is an author of a lot of articles about quality, certification, audits, management standards etc. He is currently leading the Russian delegation in ISO/TC 176, the "umbrella" committee under which the ISO 9000 series of quality management standards are being developed. |
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David Millar
Chief Operations Officer of PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers'
International Association) – a 62,000-member global association of
risk professionals – where he takes particular responsibility for
managing the associations risk standards and exams. He is an
experienced financial risk specialist and a trainer, writer and
conference presenter on risk practices and regulations. Mr Millar
has worked at board and operational management levels in investment
banking, brokerage and exchanges, clearing and settlement services. |
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Melanie Lockwood Herman
Executive Director of the Nonprofit Risk Management
Center, a resource center serving the nonprofit community in the
United States. The Center provides training,
technical assistance and informational resources on a wide range of
topics, including risk management, nonprofit governance, employment
practices, insurance-buying, and protecting vulnerable populations.
Melanie has spent her entire career in the nonprofit sector and has
authored and co-authored more than 15 books covering a wide spectrum
of nonprofit management issues. Each year she delivers numerous
workshops, seminars and keynote presentations on nonprofit
management topics. Her most recent book is Exposed: A Legal Field
Guide for Nonprofit Executives (2009). In August 2007 Melanie was named to the
10th annual NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50, a list of
"executives and thinkers |
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Leonid Dvorkin
“AFNOR Rus” General Director, IRCA Principal
Auditor, EOQ Quality Systems Auditor, GOST R and Gazpromcert Lead
Auditor, Tutor of Russian Quality Organization. Performed over 300
management systems audits (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001). Author
of publications in journals “Standards and Quality” and “Management
Systems Methods”. Operational experience: SGS Vostok Ltd.,
Certification Manager; Ministry of Construction of Russia (GOSSTROY)
Standardization Department, Federal Center of Certification in
Construction, Technical Director; “UralNIIAS”, Vice-Director; “NIIS”
Certification and Testing Center, Director; Trust “Urals Steel
Constructions”, Field Engineer. |
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Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor is currently Director of Risk Assurance at Morgan Crucible plc. Morgan Crucible is a UK listed company operating in 40 countries manufacturing advanced ceramic and carbon components. He is responsible for creating and implementing a risk management strategy throughout the group as well as being responsible for the internal audit function.
With over 30 years experience in international working environments, Paul has lived in the USA, Australia, Belgium, Switzerland and France as well as the UK. Prior to working for Morgan Crucible, he has been Head of Risk Management in 3 FTSE 100 international groups (paper industry, logistics and retail) and in a large packaging company in Switzerland.
Paul is a Chartered Engineer and is active in risk management in Europe. He has been Vice- President of FERMA is currently a Board Member. He is also Deputy Chairman of Airmic, the UK Risk Managers’Association. |
SESSION 3: Implementing technical regulations: Risk management for conformity assessment, certification, and market surveillance |
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Philippe Portalier
Graduated with a Bachelor in EU Legal
Affairs (1986) and in Industrial Property Law (1985). Before joining
in 1998 Orgalime, the European Engineering Industries Association,
Philippe Portalier worked for 12 years for various public and
private organisations in France, including the European Commission
and the household appliance maker “Groupe Brandt” (today
“Fagor-Brandt”). Since then, he coordinates Orgalime advocacy on the
application of the New Legislative Framework (NLF) for the marketing
of engineering products, including standardisation and conformity
assessment matters. |
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Marc Schaedeli
Head of Risk Management, Nestlé Ltd.
Marc is the Head of Risk Management at Nestlé, based in Vevey, Switzerland. For eight years he has built up and further developed world-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) at Nestlé. He holds a degree in Food Process Engineering from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (dipl. LM-Ing ETHZ). He is a Steering Committee member of the European Strategic Risk Management Council of the Conference Board and a Steering Committee member of the Global Zurich Risk Engineering Workshop. |
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PD Dr. Gaby-Fleur Böl
Natural scientist and Head of the interdisciplinary department risk communication at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin and teaches as private lecturer at the University of Potsdam. Regarding consumer health protection the department risk communication is responsible for a participatory dialogue with stakeholders from science, trade and industry, political circles, the media, associations, non-governmental organisations and consumers. Main research areas of the department risk communication are risk perception, early risk detection, risk impact assessment, scientific uncertainty and evaluation of risk communication processes for instance in the fields of new technologies like nanotechnology, changes in nutritional behaviour of consumers following risk communication or the ranking of risks by various social interest groups. |
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Christophe Renard
Executive Vice President at Cotecna Inspection, Geneva.
He is a graduate French aeronautics engineer in 1987, British MBA in 2001, and Six Sigma Black Belt in 2003.
His career includes computer science and animation, organization consulting, management systems certification and inspection services.
He is currently responsible for the innovation, development and marketing of inspection, conformity and security services to governments, which represent the biggest market of Cotecna Inspection. |
Enhancing Market Surveillance through Best Practice (EMARS), Best Practice Techniques in Market
Surveillance, refer to pages 71 -86 and 101-113
European Commission (EC):
Institute on Governance, Information Brief on International Risk Management
Standards
International Risk Governance Council (IRGC), White Paper on Risk Governance: Towards and
Integrative Approach
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Risk
and Regulatory Policy
Risk and Regulation Advisory Coucil (RRAC)
Institute of Risk Management. "A risk management standard"
How to develop a risk management plan
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
24 November 2009 |
OPENING SESSION |
10:00 - 10:10 |
Chairperson |
Introduction |
10:10 - 10:25 |
Mr. Ján Kubiš
Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
Risk assessment and management for economic and social development
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10:25 - 10:40 |
Mr. Rob Steele
Secretary-General, International Organization for Standardization |
A toolbox of standards to manage risks in the workplace and in daily life
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10:40 - 10:55 |
Mr. Anatoliy Nichkasov
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Architecture and Construction
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Speech |
10:55 - 11:05 |
Mr. Christer Arvius
Chairperson, Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies |
Risk management as a shared responsibility: what role for WP.6? |
11:05 - 11:10 |
Questions and answers |
SESSION 1: RISK-BASED REGULATION: OPTIMIZING THE COST OF SAFETY |
11:10 - 11:20 |
Moderator of Session 2 |
Presentation of the 1st session |
11:20 - 11:30 |
Ms. Gretchen H. Stanton
Secretary of the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS Committee), World Trade Organization |
Scientific evidence and risk-based regulations in the work of the WTO TBT and SPS Committees and as the basis for good regulatory practices
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11:30 - 11:40 |
Mr. Gregory Bounds
Economist/Policy Analyst, Regulatory Policy Division, Public Governance & Territorial Development Directorate, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) |
Achieving better regulatory quality: what tools can assist regulators in preparing better rules? |
11:40 - 11:50 |
Mr. Marco D'Ambrosio
Policy Officer, Unit I/2 - International Regulatory Agreements, Toys Safety, Corporate Responsibility European Commission |
Proportionality between risks and regulatory intervention: the experience of the European Union |
11:50 - 12:00 |
Questions to the Speakers |
12:00 - 12:10 |
Discussion (Session 1) |
12:10 - 12:20 |
Mr. Peter Morfee
Principal Technical Advisor/Senior Policy Advisor, Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand |
Risk assessement for regulatory system design (the experience of APEC) |
12:20 - 12:30 |
Mr. Donald Macrae
Member, Risk and Regulation Advisory Council, United Kingdom |
Response with responsibility: policy-making for public risk in the 21st century
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12:30 - 12:40 |
Mr. Valery Hurevich
Director, Belarusian State Institute for Standardization and Certification |
System of technical regulation and standardization as an object of risk management |
12:40 - 12:50 |
Questions to the Speakers |
12:50 - 13:00 |
Discussion |
LUNCH BREAK |
15:00 - 15:10 |
Mr. Bernd Groh
E.ON Ruhrgas AG, Gas Technology Competence Centre |
Use of new technologies for reducing risks within business in the energy industry
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15:10 - 15:20 |
Mr. Gennady Grozovsky
Deputy Director, Vniinmash |
Standards for management of technical risks and their applications |
15:20 - 15:30 |
Questions to the Speakers |
15:30 - 15:40 |
Discussion (Session 1) |
15:40 - 15:50 |
Moderator of Session 1 |
Conclusion of Session 1 |
SESSION 2: MARKETS FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS: WHAT ROLE FOR RISK MANAGEMENT STANDARDS |
16:00 - 16:10 |
Moderator of Session 2 |
Presentation of the 2nd session |
16:10 - 16:20 |
Ms. Carolyn Williams
Development Manager, Institute of Risk Management (IRM) |
Practical implementation of standards including BS31100: risk management & code of practice |
16:20 - 16:30 |
Mr. Valentin Nikonov
Managing Director and Ms. Irena Kogan
Partner, Growth Trajectory Consulting Company |
How can management systems standards contribute to mitigate business risks?
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16:30 - 16:40 |
Mr. Evgeny Avanesov
Principal Auditor, “Test-Saint-Petersburg” Co Ltd |
Risk management in ISO 9000 series of standards
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16:40 - 16:50 |
Questions to the Speakers |
16:50 - 17:00 |
Discussion |
17:00 - 17:10 |
Mr. David Millar
Chief Operations Officer, Professional Risk Managers’ International Association |
Weak points in risk management within companies
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17:10 - 17:20 |
Ms. Melanie Herman
Executive Director, Nonprofit Risk Management Center |
Risk management standards for nonprofit organizations: challenges and opportunities
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17:20 - 17:30 |
Mr. Paul Taylor
Director of Risk Assurance, Morgan Crucible Company and Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) |
How can risk assessment standards be used to strengthen cooperation between business and authorities? |
17:30 - 17:40 |
Questions to the Speakers |
17:40 - 17:50 |
Discussion (Session 2) |
17:50 - 18:00 |
Moderator of Session 2 |
Conclusion of Session 2 |
25 November 2009 |
SESSION 3: IMPLEMENTING TECHNICAL REGULATIONS:RISK MANAGEMENT FOR CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT, CERTIFICATION, AND MARKET SURVEILLANCE |
10:00 - 10:10 |
Moderator of Session 3 |
Presentation of the 3rd session |
10:10 - 10:20 |
Ms. Gaby-Fleur Böl
Head of the Department Risk Communication, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany |
Evaluation, communication, participation - theory and practice of risk communication |
10:20 - 10:30 |
Mr. Leonid Dvorkin
General Director, AFNOR Rus |
How are risk management tools used in conformity assessment?
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10:30 - 10:40 |
Mr. Jan Roed
Danish PROSAFE Representative, Head of Department, International Coordination,
The Danish Safety Technology Authority |
Risk assessment: what tools can market surveillance authorities’ use? |
10:40 - 10:50 |
Questions to the Speakers |
10:50 - 11:00 |
Discussion |
11:10 - 11:20 |
Mr. Philippe Portalier
Senior Adviser, ORGALIME |
Effective market surveillance systems and risk management: a business perspective
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11:20 - 11:30 |
Mr. Marc Schaedeli
Head, Human Pandemic Task Force/Risk Management, Nestlé |
Risk management at the company level: taking responsibility for products safety
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11:30 - 11:40 |
Mr. Christophe Renard
Executive Vice President - Development and Marketing, COTECNA INSPECTION SA |
Risk management in the inspection business |
11:40 - 11:50 |
Questions to the Speakers |
11:50 - 12:10 |
Discussion (Session 3) |
12:10 - 12:20 |
Moderator of Session 3 |
Conclusion of Session 3 |
12:20 - 12:30 |
General Discussion |
12:30 - 12:50 |
Elaboration of Chairperson's summary of the Conference |
12:50 - 13:00 |
Closing of the Conference |
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Report of the Conference |
Report of the Conference on Risk Assessment and Management
ECE/TRADE/C/WP.6/2010/2 |
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