About Riskop, a risk consultancy in Monterrey, Mexico
Riskop is a political, social and security risk consultancy in San Pedro Garza García, in the Monterrey area of Mexico, that works with field surveys and interviews and with its own platforms, TRIS and LIS.
Location, services and sectors
- Name and legal entity
- Riskop (Ehrlich, González y Treviño Consultores, S.C.)
- Headquarters
- Av. Humberto Junco Voigt 2307, Torre Martel I, local 103, piso 1, C. P. 66269, San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, Mexico
- Consulting
- Intelligence, Security, Narratives, Digital solutions
- Sectors Riskop has worked in
- Beverages, manufacturing and metals, agribusiness, mining, retail, and education and urban development
- Contact
- +52 (81) 8363 0021, info@riskop.com.mx, LinkedIn
How Riskop researches the area around an operation
Desk research on the operating environment
Before going into the field, analysts review open sources: national and local press, social media, official gazettes, figures from Mexico’s national public security system (SESNSP) and national statistics institute (INEGI), and documents from municipal and state governments.
When a company needs to know what the neighbors of a plant think, we design household surveys with a stated sample and margin of error. If the company wants a comparison, the survey is repeated a year later with the same design.
Field teams
Interviews with authorities, business chambers, academics, civil society organizations and community leaders, plus site walks. Our field teams keep a low profile and never expose the client or the people they interview.
Proprietary platforms
Riskop builds and runs its own platforms: TRIS, for security incidents and route risk; LIS, for social listening and reputational risk; and SET, for stakeholder relations and commitments, offered as a pilot program. For some clients, Riskop builds platforms specific to their operations.
Who runs Riskop
Riskop’s team works in security and defense, strategic foresight, political economy, data analysis, institutional relations and behavioral economics.
Christian Ehrlich
Partner, Co-CEO and Director of Intelligence
Christian holds a master’s degree in Maritime Security from Coventry University in the UK and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. He is a graduate of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, D.C., where he was part of the first cohort of the Defense Policy and Complex Threats executive program in 2016. He leads Riskop’s intelligence practice.
Education
- Master’s degree in Maritime Security, Coventry University (United Kingdom)
- Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
- Defense Policy and Complex Threats executive program (2016), William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (United States)
Focus areas: security and defense, strategic intelligence, political risk, maritime security.
Román González
Partner, Co-CEO and Director of Innovation
Román holds a master’s degree in Strategic Foresight from EGAP at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Engineering from the same university. He specializes in public opinion and perception studies, political risk analysis and geopolitical intelligence, with experience in sectors such as mining and beverages in Mexico and Latin America. He leads the integration of artificial intelligence into Riskop’s analysis and consulting work.
Education
- Master’s degree in Strategic Foresight, EGAP, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
Focus areas: public opinion and perception studies, political risk, geopolitical intelligence, strategic foresight, artificial intelligence applied to analysis.
Khublai Villafuerte
Chief of Staff
Khublai holds a master’s degree in Strategic Foresight from Tecnológico de Monterrey. He specializes in social, political and economic analysis and works with strategic foresight and systems thinking methods. At Riskop he is Chief of Staff.
Education
- Master’s degree in Strategic Foresight, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
Focus areas: social, political and economic analysis, strategic intelligence, systems thinking, strategic foresight.
Frequently asked questions
What is Riskop?
A political, social and security risk consultancy based in San Pedro Garza García, in the Monterrey area of Mexico. It assesses the area around its clients’ plants, routes and projects through fieldwork and its TRIS and LIS platforms. SET, its stakeholder management tool, is in a pilot program.
Does Riskop work with companies from outside Mexico?
Yes, with foreign companies that operate in Mexico or plan to.
Does Riskop publish its clients’ names?
Not without their permission. The case studies on this site are described by industry and broad region, without the city or any detail that would identify the client, a community or a person.
How is Riskop different from other risk consultancies?
It gathers information in the field with its own team, through household surveys and interviews, as well as open sources. It builds and runs its own platforms, TRIS and LIS, so tracking between one study and the next does not depend on another vendor. And one team covers political and social risk, security and communications.
Talk to the consultant who would lead your project
Tell us about the decision you’re facing and where the operation is. We reply by email or phone.