Experience

David Vose has been a specialist consultant in risk analysis since 1989. David started directly applying risk analysis as a marketing and new projects analyst to an oil and gas exploration company in New Zealand. Since then, he has applied risk analysis modeling principles to a wide range of problems and industries including oil, gas and LPG marketing and production, diamond mining, electricity generation and supply, shipping logistics and acquisitions, forecasting, project management, project economics, foreign exchange management, banking, engineering economics, forestry, reliability modeling, epidemiology and food safety, contract risk, banking operational risk, animal imports and insurance. He has also been running training seminars in risk analysis modeling since 1990 that exploit the techniques he has developed and applied in real life problems.

David is based in Belgium. His role is to supervise the technical aspects of Vose Software’s work as well as providing specialized consulting. David has consulted and/or lectured to companies and governments in over thirty countries around the world. He gives occasional tertiary lectures on risk analysis modeling and runs training seminars for a wide range of organizations. He has written the textbook Risk Analysis, published by John Wiley and Sons, now in its third edition.

David has been a member of various committees charged with the development of international guidelines in risk analysis fields: he was technical editor for the UK 's APM risk analysis guidelines, and was leader for the OIE antimicrobial resistance guidelines on risk analysis. He provided guidance to FAO/WHO's expert committees in their efforts to establish international guidelines, standards and example models for food safety. In this capacity, The OIE handbook on quantitative animal import risk assessment (vol II) is also based around his book and lectures. David is an active member of the Society for Risk Analysis, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Applied Probability Society and the Decision Analysis Society.

He maintains a key interest in risk analysis research, with particular interest in use of risk modeling to support decision-making. David has been a faculty member of the Harvard University Continuing Education Course on Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Management, and Communication and has acted as supervisor for a number of PhD theses on risk.

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