Ron Dembo

Dr. Ron Dembo is one of the world's leading authorities in risk management. He is also the Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, a cleantech software and services company that makes environmental impact measurable, visible, and manageable for corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals.  Zerofootprint's solutions mitigate environmental risk and drive cost reductions through behavioural change.


Ron is also the founder and former CEO of Algorithmics Incorporated, growing it from a start-up to the world’s largest enterprise risk-management software company, with offices in fifteen countries, over 70% of the world's top 100 banks as clients, and consistent recognition as one of Canada’s 50 best managed companies. Prior to this, he had a distinguished ten-year academic career at Yale University where he was cross appointed in Computer Sciences and Operations Research. Dembo has published over sixty technical papers on finance and mathematical optimization, and holds a number of patents in computational finance.
 
In May 2007, Ron was made a lifetime Fields Institute Fellow. This fellowship is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute, its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community.
 
He currently sits on a number of boards and is a member of the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee Canada and was appointed to the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign, coordinated by UN-Habitat.