Dr. Dmitry Chernov (ETH Zurich, 2015) has been researching the challenges of risk information transmission within large technological companies before disasters. He has also worked as a consultant, advising on managerial decision-making and crisis information response after industrial accidents.
He has more than 20 years of experience as a crisis communication and disaster management consultant for large corporate clients working in oil and gas, electric power, metals and mining, chemical, telecommunication, transport, utilities, retail manufacturing, etc. He first recognized the importance of intra-organizational risk concealment in 2007 during one of his seminars for a critical infrastructure company. Since then, he has focused on researching solutions to improve intra-organizational risk communication, in order to enable timely decision-making before and during industrial disasters.