Roshni Pramanik

Roshni is a Research Scientist at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. She is an expert in risk management, crisis preparedness and stakeholder management. She is certified LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt. She works with various client projects and R&D projects, both in Sweden and abroad. She is a published author with scientific publications in reputed journals. 

Key competence areas: Risk management, crisis management, applying risk perspectives in urban transport & maritime operations, fire safety onboard various types of ships and stakeholder management. She has a solid background of working with various public and private actors during crises or incidents in Sweden and India. Thus she is deeply interested in how these stakeholders collaborate during extreme events, how do they learn from such incidents and how can they better prepare for such extreme events in the future. 

Keywords: Risk management; Risk governance;  Risk compliance according to ISO; Exercise designing; Human factors & Organizational factors; Fire safety onboard ships; Formal Safety Assessment (FSA) of ships; Crisis preparedness & Resilience; Stakeholder management. 

Experience: Before joining RISE, she worked within the automotive industry and future mobility solutions for companies such as the Volvo Group and National Electric Vehicle (NEVS) within product quality assurance, identifying product quality risk and as an Internal Auditor. Within research and academia, Roshni worked as Project Consultant in various assignments at World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö, Mid Sweden University, and the Malmö City. 

Academic Background: Roshni graduated with Licentiate in Engineering Degree (In Swedish: Teknologie Licentiate Examen), popularly known as the Swedish Professional Doctorate specializing in Risk Management from the Faculty of Engineering, Lund University (Sweden) in 2015. She also holds Masters in Disaster Management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India) and Bachelors in Geography from Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India). Her Licentiate Thesis (2015) focused on interorganizational collaboration among various Swedish crisis management actors within the Swedish crisis management system. She designed exercises studying organizational biases and interactions between the Swedish police, the Swedish fire & rescue services, the Swedish Defense Forces and the MSB. Her project was partially funded by the Swedish Armed Forces and the MSB. 

Awards & Scholarships of Excellence: • European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Post Graduate Research Scholarship (2010- 2013). • Best Internship awarded by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (India)- 2010. • Diversity Challenge Sweden organized by Academic Search (2016). • 3 Minute Thesis Challenge organized by Lund University and Universitas 21 Network (2017). • Volvo Cars Global Graduate Program- Top Finalist Global Assessment Center (2018).