Risk Based Decision Making In Mining

Dr. Franco & Cesar Oboni

Franco & Cesar Oboni lead of Oboni Associates, of Switzerland and Vancouver. They have conducted a broad range of engineering projects, risk audits and geo-environmental hazard mitigation studies as well as planning and management of a wide variety of multi-disciplinary studies.

Dr. Franco Oboni

Dr. Franco Oboni is the Principal Engineer and President of Oboni and Associates, based in Morrens, Switzerland and Vancouver, Canada. He has conducted a broad range of engineering projects, risk audits and geo-environmental hazard mitigation studies as well as planning and management of a wide variety of multi-disciplinary studies. These projects include short term missions on five continents, definition of needs studies, negotiations with community leaders, as well as the preparation of monitoring programs, cyclic risk reassessment and updating of probabilistic analyses after unusual events.

With his strong practical and applied engineering/contracting background, coupled with long term research development and continuous scientific updating, Dr. Oboni has been involved in risk and hazard analyses for a number of large facilities and organizations, including large linear facilities (railroads, highways, pipelines) and large hydropower projects. Dr. Oboni has supported numerous studies involving the use of innovative mitigative designs and construction techniques, and has provided alternatives evaluation, including financial life-cycle analysis for solid and liquid waste facilities throughout the world.

Dr. Oboni has led multinational groups in the accomplishment of extremely complicated tasks in a timely and effective manner. Assignments include numerous expert missions in Europe and overseas (Cameroon, Chad, Canada, Gabon, Madagascar, Chile, Philippines, Oman, Algeria), including on-site consultation, forensic, expert witness and troubleshooting.

The author of over 30 publications presented in international journals, Dr. Oboni has also lectured for numerous universities, laboratories and organizations in Asia, North America and Europe. He is also the author of a fiction book, entitled "The Omani Link".