About the Founder
Pierre Kernen is a crisis management consultant and risk steering adviser based in Norway. He is the founder of Aequilibrium in Crisis AS.
His work is shaped by more than twenty years spent leading and supporting organisations in high-risk and sensitive environments — at both operational and strategic level.
Fourteen years with Médecins Sans Frontières, as a field coordinator, security adviser, and ultimately Head of the Security and Risk Management Unit at headquarters in Brussels, followed by experience in emergency and security management in the maritime shipping sector, have grounded an approach that is practical, conceptual, and built on real exposure to the weight of critical decisions.
What those years taught
Working through serious incidents — kidnappings, armed attacks, disappearances, reputational crises — and alongside the people responsible for managing them, shaped a clear conviction: a good plan matters. But even the best plan does not guarantee the quality of what happens when it meets reality.
What makes the difference in crisis is ultimately the people carrying it — their capacity to observe clearly, reason under pressure, and decide with integrity when the situation offers no clean exit.
That conviction is what AIC was built on.
Why AIC
AIC was created from the observation that most organisations invest heavily in procedures and continuity frameworks — and invest too little in the human capacity that those frameworks ultimately depend on.
The work of AIC is to address that gap: discreetly, practically, and with respect for the complexity of what organisations face when things go wrong.