Dr Robin van den Honert

Dr Rob van den Honert is Deputy Director at Risk Frontiers.  His interests lie in flood risk and damage analysis, and decision modelling (particularly modelling of complex decisions and prioritisations involving multiple decision criteria) surrounding a wide range of natural hazards.
He has experience in modelling natural hazard risks and impacts for government agencies and the emergency management sector. These include

• Project leader for projects to assess state wide natural hazard risk in Queensland, and to implement a state wide risk register program in Queensland
• Designed and built a model to measure and record natural disaster impacts consistently across all jurisdictions for the Recovery Sub-Committee of ANZEMC
• Project leader for a project to develop a framework for natural disaster mitigation decision-making for the Risk Assessment, Measurement and Mitigation Sub-Committee of ANZEMC
• Project leader for a project to develop a framework for measuring community resilience for the Risk Assessment, Measurement and Mitigation Sub-Committee of ANZEMC.

Rob’s background is in statistical science, mathematics of finance, decision modelling, and market research. He has over 30 refereed publications on various aspects of natural hazard risks, multi-criteria decision making, and finance. His background in statistics has gained him expertise in simulation, stochastic modelling, quantitative risk assessment and decision making in the face of uncertainty.