# Ron Dembo

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{{short description|South African risk management expert}}
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thumb|Dr. Ron Dembo, 2021
'''Ron Samuel Dembo''' is an [academic](/source/Academic_staff) and [entrepreneur](/source/Entrepreneurship). He served as a professor at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University).<ref>{{Cite news |title= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/technology/15iht-carbon.1.5713682.html}}</ref> During this time, he held joint appointments in both the Department of [Computer Science](/source/Computer_science) and the School of Management.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Citizen roles in resilient cities - Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint {{!}} UN-Habitat |url=https://unhabitat.org/citizen-roles-in-resilient-cities-ron-dembo-zerofootprint |access-date=2025-12-31 |website=unhabitat.org}}</ref> He co-authored three Technical Reports at Yale's Dept. of Computer Science in 1984.<ref>
  {{cite web |title=1984 Technical Reports |url=https://cpsc.yale.edu/research/technical-reports/1984-technical-reports |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Yale University :: Computer Science |language=en |location=New Haven, CT}}
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== Career ==
Dembo was founder and CEO of [Algorithmics Incorporated](/source/Algorithmics_Incorporated).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-02-08 |title=Algorithmics reshuffles senior management |url=https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/1330/algorithmics-reshuffles-senior-management |access-date=2025-12-31 |website=Finextra Research |language=en}}</ref> Algorithmics was sold to Fitch in 2005<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-07 |title=Riskthinking.AI: Making the world climate-ready |url=https://www.technology-innovators.com/riskthinking-ai/ |access-date=2025-12-31 |website=Technology Innovators |language=en-US}}</ref> and later to IBM in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hubler|first=David|date=1 September 2011|title=IBM brings another analytics company under Big Blue umbrella|work=Washington Technology|url=https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/09/01/ibm-algorithmics-buy.aspx|access-date=2021-03-01}}</ref> It has since been acquired by SS&C.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-09-26|title=SS&C to Acquire Algorithmics from IBM|url=https://www.finsmes.com/2019/09/ssc-to-acquire-algorithmics-from-ibm.html|access-date=2021-03-01|website=FinSMEs|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2005, Dembo founded [Zerofootprint](/source/Zerofootprint) Software, a Toronto-based, [cleantech](/source/cleantech) software and services company.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=2007-05-15|title=World mayors get software to track carbon imprint (Published 2007)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/technology/15iht-carbon.1.5713682.html|access-date=2021-03-01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In the same year, he founded the non-profit Zerofootprint Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Zerofootprint Foundation · 392 Markham Street, Toronto, ON M6G 2K9|url=https://opengovca.com/corporation/4549058|access-date=2021-03-01|website=opengovca.com}}</ref> which won gold in the Climate Change category at the [Canadian Environment Awards](/source/Canadian_Environment_Awards) in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-06-04|title=Canadian Environment Awards Announces Winners for 2008|url=https://thegreenpages.ca/2008/06/04/canadian_environment_awards_an_3/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=thegreenpages.ca|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Zero Prize|url=http://www.thezeroprize.com/|access-date=2021-03-01|website=www.thezeroprize.com}}</ref>

== Awards and honors ==
In May 2007, Dembo was made a lifetime [Fields Institute](/source/Fields_Institute) Fellow.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-09-30|title=Fields Institute Fellows|url=http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/honours-and-fellowships/fields-institute-fellows|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences|language=en}}</ref> This fellowship is awarded to "individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Fields Institute," its programs, and to the Canadian mathematical community. Dembo's alma mater, the [University of Waterloo](/source/University_of_Waterloo), honored Dembo with a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Medal for Professional Achievement in business and climate change in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-07-26|title=Recipients of the Alumni Achievement Medal|url=https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/alumni-achievement-medal-past-recipients|access-date=2021-03-01|website=Engineering|language=en}}</ref>

In 2009 and 2010, Dembo participated in the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign, as coordinated by UN Habitat, in Barcelona,<ref>
  {{Cite conference
    |access-date=14 May 2024
    |date=12-14 October 2009
    |location=Barcelona, Spain
    |publisher=UN Habitat
    |title=Outcome of the 1st Session of the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign
    |url=https://staging.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/7541_28061_1%20WUC%20SCM%20Barcelona%20Oct%202009%20Final%20report.pdf
  }}
</ref> Paris,<ref>
  {{Cite conference
    |access-date=14 May 2024
    |date=7-9 December 2009
    |location=Paris
    |publisher=UN Habitat
    |title=Outcome of the Second Steering Committee Meeting and Working Group Meeting of the World Urban Campaign on Goals, Strategy and Principles
    |url=https://www.fig.net/news/archive/news_2009/paris_december_2009/unhabitat_paris_dec_2009.pdf
  }}
</ref> and Rio de Janeiro.<ref>
  {{Cite conference
    |access-date=14 May 2024
    |date=20 March 2010
    |location=Rio de Janeiro
    |publisher=UN Habitat
    |title=Outcome of the 3rd Session of the Steering Committee of the World Urban Campaign
    |url=https://staging.unhabitat.org/downloads/docs/8290_93843_3%20WUC%20SCM%20Rio%20de%20Janeiro%20March%202010%20Final%20report.pdf
  }}
</ref>  In 2024, Zerofootprint remains a Partner in the Business and Industries Constituency of the World Urban Campaign by UN Habitat.<ref>
  {{Cite web
    |access-date=14 May 2024
    |date=6 March 2024
    |publisher=UN Habitat
    |title=Sponsors and Partners
    |url=https://www.worldurbancampaign.org/partners

  }}
</ref>

== Books ==
Dembo is the author of ''Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk,'' co-authored with Andrew Freeman, published in April 1998;<ref>{{Cite web |title= Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk &#124; Wiley|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Seeing+Tomorrow%3A+Rewriting+the+Rules+of+Risk-p-9780471436973}}</ref> ''Upside Downside: Simple Rules of Risk Management for the Smart Investor,'' co-authored with Daniel Stoffman, published in March 2006;<ref>{{Cite book |title= Upside, Downside: Simple Rules of Risk Management for the Smart Investor| isbn=978-0-385-66159-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GeTjAAAACAAJ | last1=Dembo | first1=Ron S. | last2=Stoffman | first2=Daniel | date=2006 | publisher=Doubleday Canada }}</ref> and ''Risk Thinking'', published in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Risk Thinking|url=https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/820433-risk-thinking}}</ref>

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