If you don’t remember him, Alex Dali is the founder of “G31000,” a self-invented organization that purports to offer “ISO 31000” certificates to professionals. Dali has been in non-stop controversy since he announced the program, after it was discovered he was posing as a woman on LinkedIn to spam the site with G31000 invitations, using a photo of an eyebrow model to presumably make his company appear larger than it is. Dali was thrown off of the ISO Technical Committee 262 on risk management for live-tweeting closed door events, in violation of the committee’s policies. Former partners who helped develop the G31000 test materials indicated to Oxebridge they quit the group when it was clear Dali was obsessed with “pass rates” and was intentionally making the materials easy to ensure everyone passed; some questions were then raised as to linkages between passing grades and student payments.
Oxebridge then learned Dali had plagiarized nearly all his articles and published pieces, some in their entirety, and then refused to have his G31000 group become independently accredited. Dali falsely claimed he “serves as an invited professor in several universities and institutes in the United States and Europe,” and has no verifiable credentials to back up his claim of having worked in the risk management field for more than 15 years.
Finally, it was then discovered that Dali is wanted under an arrest warrant in Singapore.
Dali launched an unsuccessful lawsuit against Oxebridge for reporting on his shenanigans, alongside US TAG 176 “risk expert” Allen Gluck. Gluck and Dali since split, with Gluck forming his own unaccredited risk certification scheme, ERM31000. At the time, Gluck and Dali characterized the investigations into their G31000 operation as a “federal crime,” but then failed to convince anyone in law enforcement to arrest anyone. The case was thrown out of court.
Now we can add “doxing” to his list of unethical, disgusting practices. Necroposting in a year-old article I wrote on TC 262 scandals, Dali took the opportunity to begin spamming the group to promote G31000. One reader then raised a question about TC 262, in response to the article, not to Dali:
Despite the post saying nothing at all about Dali or his G31000 certification scheme, Dali inexplicably responded by publishing personal details about the reader’s G31000 test scores, and then claiming that the student had failed to pay his bill. He also called the reader’s NGO a “scam” (although spelled it wrong):
Dali survives within the ISO scheme largely due to the support of TC 262 Chairman Kevin Knight, who told Oxebridge he didn’t care about anyone’s morality or ethics provided they were promoting his standard, ISO 31000. Knight regularly appears at G31000 events to promote himself and the standard. Oxebridge has demanded he step down from TC 262, as his own ethical behavior is called into question.
So it’s worth pointing out that if you are foolish enough to sign up for the unaccredited G31000 certification program, you run the risk of having your personal scores and billing information posted online in off-topic spam messages by its very founder, Alex Dali.
Christopher Paris is the founder and VP Operations of Oxebridge. He has over 35 years’ experience implementing ISO 9001 and AS9100 systems, and helps establish certification and accreditation bodies with the ISO 17000 series. He is a vocal advocate for the development and use of standards from the point of view of actual users. He is the writer and artist of THE AUDITOR comic strip, and is currently writing the DR. CUBA pulp novel series. Visit www.drcuba.world
