Risk Sciences International

What Risk Sciences International does

Risk Sciences International (RSI) is a privately held boutique risk science consultancy founded in 2006 and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. The firm delivers professional services organized around three pillars — Understanding Risk, Managing Risk, and Communicating Risk — to federal and provincial regulators, municipal authorities, multinational corporations across pharmaceuticals, food, energy, transportation, chemicals, and technology, and to UN agencies and civil-society organizations. Engagements span roughly 150 countries and the firm reports a cumulative client base exceeding 400 organizations.

RSI's service portfolio rests on proprietary frameworks and custom-built software rather than a packaged product. The Collective Risk Action Framework and Toolkit (CRAFT) is positioned as the firm's signature methodology for addressing transboundary risks that cross jurisdictional and sectoral lines. The Global Risk Census complements this as a citizen-science initiative intended to crowdsource observational risk data. Underlying these frameworks is a quantitative capability stack covering probability distribution fitting, sensitivity analysis, model calibration and validation, stochastic modeling, scenario testing, multi-criteria decision analysis, and pharmacovigilance analytics — the firm has worked with adverse-event datasets exceeding 14.5 million FAERS records and 770,000 CVAR records. Decision-support software, workflows, and risk-communication materials are produced on a per-engagement basis.

Headcount is reported in the 11-50 range, with a heavy concentration of senior experts — toxicologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, risk analysts, engineers, medical doctors, regulatory specialists, and communications professionals — many of whom hold university appointments and have collectively authored over 700 peer-reviewed publications. CEO and founder Greg Paoli was named a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis in 2026. The firm does not publicly disclose revenue, prices services on a custom, quote-based, multi-year contract basis, and markets exclusively through direct, senior-led enterprise engagement with government, corporate, and civil-society buyers.

Name

Risk Sciences International

Legal name

Risk Sciences International

Website

https://risksciences.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2006

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Risk Sciences International is a privately held Ottawa-based boutique risk science consultancy founded in 2006. It delivers assessment, management, communication, and software-based decision-support services to government agencies, multinational corporations, and civil society organizations in approximately 150 countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Risk Science Consulting

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169), Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (541690), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAHAJAE

Process Safety & Major Hazard Risk Management (PSM)

Business & Public Services/Professional Services (Legal, Accounting, Consulting)/Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Consulting

SECONDARYEDAIAMAD

Crisis Response Management & Incident Support

Education/International Education & Study Abroad/Study Abroad Health, Safety, Insurance & Risk Management

SECONDARYFSAGAFAL

Model Risk Management & AI Governance (validation, monitoring, explainability)

Financial & Insurance/Financial Technology (Fintech)/RegTech (Compliance, KYC/AML, Fraud, Identity)

Keywords

• Risk science consulting
• Risk assessment services
• Risk management advisory
• Decision support tools
• Regulatory risk analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Ottawa

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: RSI generates revenue through providing professional consulting services including risk assessment, risk-based decision-making support, risk communication, regulatory science, and training. Services range from targeted expert engagements to complex multi-stakeholder initiatives. The company delivers scientifically rigorous analyses, develops practical tools and training, and produces perception-informed messaging.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Risk Sciences International (RSI) is a boutique risk science consultancy that delivers evidence-based risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication services to governments, regulators, private-sector firms, and civil society organizations. The firm develops proprietary decision-support software and quantitative tools (including CRAFT and the Global Risk Census) alongside its advisory engagements to help clients characterize, prioritize, and act on complex health, safety, environmental, and societal risks.

Product overview

Risk Sciences International (RSI) is a boutique risk science consultancy that offers a unified portfolio of advisory services organized around three core pillars: Understanding Risk, Managing Risk, and Communicating Risk. The company develops custom software tools, decision-support systems, and methodological frameworks, including CRAFT (Collective Risk Action Framework and Toolkit) for transboundary risks and The Global Risk Census for global risk identification. RSI's offerings include risk assessment, predictive analytics, regulatory evidence preparation, training, and crisis communication services, delivered by a team of scientists including toxicologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, engineers, and policy advisors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CRAFT: Collective Risk Action Framework and Toolkit - An innovative process designed to tackle complex risks that transcend traditional boundaries, developed by RSI.
• Global Risk Census

Products and services

• Understanding Risk Services Service line helping clients characterize and prioritize complex risks through evidence-based assessment, hazard identification, and quantitative risk analysis. Targeted at regulators, government departments, and corporations needing independent risk characterization.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 700 peer-reviewed publications and 1,000+ total articles and books published
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• World Health Organization (WHO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRSI has worked with WHO agencies including the World Alliance for Patient Safety and the Global Observatory for eHealth on international public health risk assessment and guidance development.
• RIVM National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic collaboration with RIVM on environmental and public health risk assessment methodologies and policy support in the Netherlands.
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with IUCN on conservation and environmental risk assessment, supporting global biodiversity protection initiatives.
• Homeland Security Centers of Excellence (HS-Centers) of U.S. Dept of Homeland SecuritycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with U.S. Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence on national security and emergency preparedness risk assessment.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Booz Allen Hamilton: Major federal consultant with public health, civilian, and homeland security risk practices that buy into the same agencies (e.g., DHS Centers of Excellence, HHS) that RSI serves.
• Tetra Tech: Engineering and consulting firm with strong water, environment, and climate risk practices serving regulators and multilaterals. Already a listed collaborator/adjacent client of RSI in the source data; comparable end markets.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): Largest pure-play environmental, health, and safety consultancy globally. Overlaps heavily with RSI's environmental risk, chemical safety, and EHS work but at significantly broader scale and broader service scope.
• Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory: Big Four advisory practice with large EHS, climate, and public-sector risk offerings. Competes for enterprise and government regulatory science work and is increasingly productizing risk decision-support tooling.

Direct peers

• ICF International: Global consulting and digital services firm with deep practices in health, environment, climate, public safety, and risk analytics for federal/international clients. Most direct large-scale analog to RSI's regulatory and public-sector risk science work.
• Gradient Analytics: Environmental and human-health risk science consultancy providing chemical, toxicological, and regulatory risk assessments — near-direct boutique competitor to RSI's risk assessment practice.
• Exponent: Engineering and scientific consulting firm delivering failure analysis, exposure assessment, and risk-based decision support across chemicals, health, and infrastructure. Comparable in being senior-scientist led with multi-disciplinary risk expertise.
• ToxStrategies: Scientific consulting firm focused on toxicology, epidemiology, and risk assessment for regulatory submissions and chemical safety — directly mirrors RSI's chemical and microbiological risk assessment offering.

Emerging players

• RAND Corporation: Nonprofit research organization conducting policy and risk research across health, environment, and security — overlapping with RSI's public-sector evidence-based advisory work, particularly international and multilateral engagements.

Others

• The Wistar Institute (Risk Sciences collaborators): Listed as an academic research collaborator; representative of the academic/government institute ecosystem that RSI draws its expert bench from and competes with for risk-science thought leadership.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/risksciences

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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