Crisis Management Office

OVERVIEW

The crisis management office is dedicated to manage any delicate, sensitive or critical situation that IUL may face. Making decisions in the event of a crisis that may affect operations or jeopardizes survival.

IUL Crisis management is an approach based on geopolitical processes and strategies, allowing IUL to identify and respond effectively to crisis, unforeseen events, or any adverse disruption that could harm people, property, or the university’s business processes.

Implementing measures to avert foreseeable crises or lessen the impacts of an ongoing crisis in order to protect the institution (its activity, its image, its reputation, its valuation…). Ensuring smooth operation, by bringing together all of the strategic departments.

MISSION

Crisis management seeks solutions by analyzing geopolitical representations in a conflictual situation or one that risks becoming so.

Acting as mediator or agreement coordinator, bringing together various actors views (whether they are politicians, diplomats, lawyers, state or multinational companies), by establishing communication that can serve as a roadmap, and accepting each other’s differences, making each actor’s individual points of view understood.

OBJECTIVES

  • Prioritize the risks that are most likely to cause the university to fall into the red, such as control the number of students registered in masters, control the number of students’ defenses each month or year, and number of teachers by specialty and by level;
  • Address uncommon situations with exceptional information and active management system
  • Students, teachers, and employees Problem Management and Identification – Reinforce transparency and communication to prevent the interference of third parties, according to private and administrative criteria;
  • Maintaining a steadfast commitment to a zero-tolerance Anti-Bribery and Corruption policy,
  • Ensuring ethical business practices
  • Upholding the highest standards of integrity across all operations
  • Create an inventory of risk typologies (Risk mapping);
  • Create a database touching various fields at different levels (political, sociological, religious, psychological, geographical, diplomatic, military, economic), organizing and centralizing risk-related data that is dispersed across several organizational divisions and managers (quality, logistics, safety, human resources, research, teaching, etc.);
  • Storing strategic reserves away from any threats or attacks.