Marie-Valentine Florin

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Biography

Marie-Valentine Florin is the executive director of the International Risk Governance Center.
She organises IRGC collaborative activities, focusing in particular on the role of IRGC as a multi-stakeholder platform and a convening place at the interface between science and public policy.
She joined the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC Foundation) www.irgc.org in 2006.
From 2000-2006, she worked for local authorities, helping them develop and implement strategies for sustainable development, and for philanthropic and humanitarian organisations. She spent the first part of her career (1984-1999) in an international socio-cultural research and marketing consulting firm. Marie-Valentine graduated from Science Po in Paris (public policy and management), and then earned post-graduate diplomas in marketing strategy, sustainable development and environmental diplomacy.

Her current involvement in IRGC activities is mostly related to:
- systemic risks and transitions, governance of risks related to emerging and converging technologies
- digital policy, specific risks related to machine learning
- precision medicine
- synthetic biology
- nanotechnology
- climate engineering

Member of Advisory Committee to the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2015-2021; Fellow of the Society of Risk Analysis (SRA).

Awards

Fellow

Society for Risk Analysis

2019

Publications

Selected publications

Collins, A., Florin, M.-V., Renn, O. Journal of Risk Research, May 2020	COVID-19 risk governance: drivers, responses and lessons to be learned
Florin M.-V. Journal of Risk Research, September 2019	Risk governance and 'responsible research and innovation' can be mutually supportive
Linkov I., Baiardi F., Florin M.-V. et al. IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine 17(5), September 2019	Applying Resilience to Hybrid Threats
Linkov, I., Florin, M.-V. et al. Environ Syst Decis (2018) 38: 170.	Comparative, collaborative and integrative risk governance for emerging technologies
I. Linkov; C. Fox-Lent; L. Read; C. R. Allen; J. C. Arnott; Florin, M.-V. et al. Risk Analysis. 2018-04-25.	Tiered Approach to Resilience Assessment
Linkov I.; Trump B.,Poinsatte-Jones K., Florin M.-V. Sustainability. 2018-02-08.	Governance Strategies for a Sustainable Digital World
E. P. Roege; A. Z. Collier; V. Chevardin; P. Chouinard; M.-V. Florin et al. in Resilience and Risk; Springer, p. 383-414, 2017	Bridging the Gap from Cyber Security to Resilience
Florin, M.-V., Renn, O. Improving risk regulation, International Risk Governance Council, 2015	Potential scope and challenges of behaviourally informed regulation: implications for modern regulatory risk management
Florin M.-V. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 3, 303-308, 2014	Dealing with the challenge of evidence-based decision-making in situations of uncertainty and emergency
Florin, M.-V., Xu, J. Input paper prepared for the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015, 2014	Risk governance: An overview of drivers and success factors
Müller-Grabherr, D., Florin, M.-V., Harris, B., Crilly, D., Gugic, G., Vegter, J. Slob, A., Borowski, I. & Brils, J. In J. Brils, W. Brack, D. Müller-Grabherr, P. Negrel & J. E. Vermaat (Eds.), Risk-informed management of European river basins (pp. 241-2649, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014	Integrated river basin management and risk governance
Florin, M.-V. Journal of Risk Research, 16(3-4), 315-322, 2012	IRGCs approach to emerging risks
Florin, M.-V. The Commonwealth Finance Ministers Meeting, February 2011	Risk governance by governments
Florin, M.-V. & Bunting, C. Journal of Cleaner Production, 17(Supplement 1), S106-S108, 2009	Risk Governance guidelines for bioenergy policies.
Bunting, C., Renn, O. & Florin, M.-V. The John Liner Review, 21(2), 7, 2007	Introduction to the IRGC risk governance Framework

Other publications

IRGC @ EPFL publications

https://infoscience.epfl.ch/publication-exports/352/?ln=en

Publications of the IRGC Foundation (before 2016)

http://www.irgc.org/publications/

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Humanities and Social Sciences Program

Courses

Producing evidence that makes sense to policy

The course offers an opportunity for students to meet the challenge of producing and communicating scientific evidence to an international policy making audience by participating in an International Risk Governance Center (IRGC) expert workshop and contributing to the writing of a policy brief.

Risk governance

Risk governance is an interdisciplinary approach to risks and benefits, including those that accompany the development of new technology. Stakeholders must often be involved in the trade-off between innovation and precaution.

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