Amir Aftab is a global operations, enterprise risk management, governance, and organizational resilience professional with more than 18+ years of experience across complex, fragile, and conflict-affected environments. His career spans field, country, regional, and global roles across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.

His expertise lies at the intersection of enterprise risk management (ERM), risk governance, organizational resilience, business continuity, crisis management, and conflict-sensitive operations. He has extensive experience developing and strengthening organizational risk frameworks, enterprise and programme risk registers, risk assessments, business continuity and contingency plans, crisis management arrangements, and institutional preparedness systems.

Drawing on extensive humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, emergency, and recovery experience, Amir combines context and conflict analysis with structured risk assessment, helping organizations understand how political, conflict, operational, financial, reputational, security, and institutional risks interact and affect strategy, people, partnerships, and programme delivery. A particular strength of his work is translating complex risk environments into clear strategic insights, mitigation measures, and decision-making options for senior leadership.

He has supported organizations in strengthening business continuity planning, scenario planning, crisis preparedness and response, risk monitoring and reporting, governance and accountability mechanisms, and organizational resilience—helping teams anticipate disruption, maintain critical functions, and adapt operations during periods of uncertainty and crisis.

At the Dallaire Institute, Amir served in a global operations and risk management capacity, supporting institutional risk management and international programming across Africa and Latin America. His work focused on strengthening enterprise and operational risk management, risk governance, organizational resilience, business continuity and crisis preparedness, and risk-informed decision-making, while supporting leadership and country teams navigating complex conflict and operational environments.

Amir's approach to risk is fundamentally enabling: understand the context, anticipate uncertainty, strengthen preparedness and resilience, and enable organizations to pursue their strategic and programmatic objectives responsibly and effectively.