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ERGP Executive Certificate: lead resilience before the board and the regulator

The first resilience governance certification fully available in Arabic.

Six modules and 94 chapters at your own pace, six working documents built on your own organisation and a numbered certificate anyone can verify. From NCEMA 7000 to DORA. Fully in Arabic, also in English.

94 chaptersin six modules, at your own pace, no deadlines

6 working documentsbuilt on your own organisation, from policy to board report

Capstone reviewa board-level report, reviewed live with the examiner

Public registera numbered certificate with QR verification

USD 990 · AED 3,650per person · excl. VAT · certification included

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What it gives you

For heads of risk, continuity and compliance on the way to a Chief Risk Officer role, for suppliers to UAE government clients and for leadership teams that need one framework. Five questions they bring to us.

“Can I talk to the board about resilience in its own language?”You set a disruption risk appetite and tolerable downtime, justify recovery targets in money and report to the board and the audit committee. The capstone is a board-level report on your own organisation.
“Do I know NCEMA 7000 and the Central Bank rules well enough to lead an assessment?”Module 5 maps one management system to AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000 and ISO 22301, with the global layer: DORA, the UK regime and CBUAE requirements. You leave with a mapping matrix for your organisation.
“How do I prove what I know?”Module tests with a pass threshold, a capstone reviewed live with the examiner and a numbered certificate that an employer checks in ten seconds.
“What will I bring back to my organisation?”Six working documents: a governance policy, a risk register with key risk indicators (KRIs), a business impact analysis (BIA), a crisis plan with an exercise scenario, a mapping matrix, and a dashboard with a board report template.
“Can I take it in Arabic?”Yes. All 94 chapters, the questions, the tests and the interface are in Arabic. The same course is in English, and you can switch at any time.

Why it is worth starting now

Regulators, large companies and employers in the Gulf ask for people who can run resilience and prove it. Here is what 2026 showed.

Compliance and regulatory skills are in short supply.Recruiters told The National that roles in cyber security, finance and compliance are in high demand and short supply in the UAE in 2026. Familiarity with local regulations lets a new hire contribute immediately.The National, 24 January 2026
Large UAE companies make NCEMA 7000 mandatory.The business continuity policy of Emirates Global Aluminium, implemented on 5 August 2026, calls AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2021 a mandatory standard and makes the CEO the owner of the system. Someone has to run it and answer for it.EGA, BCMS Operating Policy, August 2026
AI is moving faster than governance.In a Heidrick & Struggles survey of 148 CEOs and directors in the Middle East, 47% named artificial intelligence a major issue for 2026, and only 36% felt confident in managing it. Modules 2 and 6 cover AI-assisted risk monitoring under ISO 42001.Heidrick & Struggles via MEA Tech Watch, 14 April 2026
What you can do this week.List the resilience questions your board, regulator or largest client asked in the last year and compare them with the six modules below. A 30-minute Zoom walkthrough shows the course from the inside.

How the programme runs and when you get the certificate

Start any day and move at your own pace; access stays open. Progress is earned step by step, and every result can be verified.

The path from the first chapter to a numbered, publicly verifiable certificate: reading with checkpoint questions, six module tests, the capstone, the live review and the certificate valid for three years — How the programme runs from the first chapter to a certificate anyone can verify.

1Read and answer

Every part of a module ends with a block of checkpoint questions, 24 blocks in total. Answering them opens the next step.

2Pass the module tests

Each of the six modules ends with a test: 8 questions, a pass at 6, questions shuffled on every attempt.

3Build the capstone and review it live

A board-level resilience report on your own organisation, reviewed live with the examiner.

4Get the certificate

Entered in the public register with a unique number and QR verification on risk-place.org. Valid for three years.

Working templates come with every module. Capstones are reviewed by the Chief Examiner, Evgeny Telenkov, PhD, together with the invited circle of senior practitioners. Who we are →

The programme: six modules, 94 chapters, six working documents

Each module ends with a working document you build for your own organisation. 94 chapters in total — you set the pace.

Resilience governance and the board19 chapters

Risk appetite for disruption, committee architecture, delegated authority, three lines of defence, the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) role.

Artefact: a resilience governance policy and governance map

From enterprise risk management to business resilience15 chapters

ISO 31000, the risk register, key risk indicators (KRIs), scenario analysis and stress-testing, linking ERM to continuity — including the use of AI for risk monitoring and an early-warning dashboard (ISO 42001).

Artefact: a resilience risk register with KRIs

Impact analysis and the economics of recovery15 chapters

Business impact analysis (BIA); recovery targets — maximum acceptable outage (MAO), minimum business continuity objective (MBCO), recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO / RPO); impact tolerance — the language of the new operational resilience regulators; cost of downtime; the investment case for measures.

Artefact: a completed BIA with defended targets

Crisis management and decision making15 chapters

The crisis team, escalation, communications, decision making under pressure, the exercise programme and its reports.

Artefact: a crisis response plan and an exercise scenario

Regulatory requirements for resilience: understand and apply15 chapters

AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000 in depth and its mapping to ISO 22301; the global layer — DORA (EU), the Bank of England and FCA operational resilience regime (UK), CBUAE; sector regulators and government-contract expectations.

Artefact: an organisation mapping matrix against NCEMA 7000 and ISO 22301

Assurance, reporting and maturity15 chapters

The resilience dashboard and AI-assisted risk monitoring (ISO 42001), the board report, audit readiness, the maturity model.

Artefact: a dashboard and a board report template

Capstone: a board-level resilience report on your own organisation, reviewed live with the examiner.

See inside the course

Live screenshots from the actual course — real chapters exactly as participants see them: the authored text, the diagrams and the checkpoint questions.

🌐These screenshots show the English edition. The course is fully available in Arabic as well — every chapter, test and the capstone. View the Arabic page ←

Chapter 2 · The core vocabulary: risk, continuity, crisis, resilience Click to enlarge

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AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000 inside ERGP, and the global layer

AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2021 is the UAE national standard for business continuity — mandatory for government entities and critical infrastructure, and increasingly referenced in supplier requirements across the economy.

Its structure is deliberately aligned with ISO 22301: one well-designed system covers both. The differences — terminology, supplier-evaluation duties, recovery during response — are exactly what Module 5 covers.

The same module carries the global layer: DORA in the European Union, the Bank of England and FCA operational resilience regime in the United Kingdom, and CBUAE requirements for banks. One vocabulary — impact tolerance, severe but plausible scenarios — read the same way in Dubai, London and Brussels.

Read our full NCEMA 7000 guide → · What NCEMA 7000 training must cover →

Arabic-English glossary of continuity terms →

Standards coverage

Core: ISO 22301:2019 · ISO 31000:2018 · AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000:2021

Open the full coverage map — which module covers which standard

Standard	Covers	Module
ISO 22313	BCMS guidance	M1
ISO 22317	Business impact analysis	M3
ISO 22331	Continuity strategy	M3
ISO 22332	Plans and procedures	M4
ISO 22318	Supply chain continuity	M2 · M5
ISO 22330	People aspects	M4
ISO 22316	Organisational resilience	M1
ISO 22361	Crisis management	M4
ISO 22320	Incident management	M4
ISO 22398	Exercises	M4
ISO/IEC 27031	ICT readiness	M6
ISO/IEC 27001	Information security	M6
IEC 31010	Risk assessment techniques	M2
COSO ERM 2017	Enterprise risk framework	M2
ISO 37301	Compliance management	M1
ISO 37000	Governance of organisations	M1
ISO 42001	AI management	M2 · M6
EU: DORA	Digital operational resilience (finance)	M5
UK: Bank of England · FCA	Operational resilience regime	M5
UAE: NCEMA 7000 · CBUAE · TDRA IAS · DESC ISR · ADHICS v2 · UAE PDPL	Gulf regulatory layer	M5
KSA: NCA ECC	Saudi cybersecurity controls	M5
Qatar: NCSA NIA	Qatar information assurance	M5

This table is the promise of completeness: from board appetite to the auditor's report.

What you join: the ERGP Circle

The ERGP Circle: certified practitioners in the centre, two coordinators bridging them to organisations

The certificate is the entry. Passing ERGP admits you to the Circle — a private community of certified practitioners, coordinated by the founders, small today and growing with every certificate issued.

Knowledge ahead of the market — a quarterly Circle session on one real case; new modules and regulatory readings before publication.
People you can call — a private member directory, open to members only; direct access to the examiners.
Real work — we assign Circle members to client engagements: audits, dashboards, continuity systems. Members with standing become examiners.

Curated by Erzhena Khilko; engagements coordinated by Evgeny Telenkov. More about the Circle →

By invitation · Founding expert circle

Senior practitioners: lend the Arabic edition your judgement

We are inviting a small circle of leaders with twenty or more years in risk, continuity or crisis management to go through the fully Arabic edition before anyone else — and tell us, frankly, where it can be stronger. Full access, all materials and certification are our gift; your experience is the contribution we ask for. Invitations are few by design.

Assessed, verifiable, yours to show

Assessed at every module

Six module tests with a pass threshold, plus a capstone reviewed live with the examiner. The certificate is earned.

Artefacts you keep

Six working documents leave the programme with you and go straight into your organisation.

Publicly verifiable

Every certificate carries a unique number and a QR resolving to the register on risk-place.org. An employer verifies it in ten seconds.

Valid for three years

Renewal through evidence of practice and professional development keeps the credential alive.

ERGP — Executive Certificate in Enterprise Resilience Governance — sample certificate

The certificate: personalised, numbered, QR-verified. Sample shown.

Verify a certificate

Enter the number printed on the document, or scan its QR code. Full verification page →

Programme leadership

Erzhena KhilkoDirector of Programmes · ERGP, SAFE

Chief Risk Officer of American Express Bank and its payment system operator, 2010–2024; chair of the Risk Committee, member of ALCO and the Credit Committee. Built risk governance across 12 business units on the Three Lines of Defence model with zero audit findings; ran ICAAP under Basel III Pillar 2, RCSA across 15+ core processes and the continuity plan with annual test cycles. Earlier: head of risk at Bank of Cyprus Russia, corporate finance at Deloitte, audit at Ernst & Young. She owns the programme design, the cohort schedule and the participant experience across all our programmes — and curates the ERGP Circle: the quarterly sessions, the member directory and the invitation of examiners.

Evgeny TelenkovDirector, business continuity practice · PhD in Economics · Academic Director & Chief Examiner

Best Risk Manager of the Year 2020 (RusRisk). 15+ years leading risk and continuity functions: Nornickel, where he built business continuity from zero, Rosneft, Beeline, Ernst & Young; author of 30+ continuity plans. CRO of a $20bn petrochemical megaproject (AGCC, SIBUR) with 200+ construction risk indicators. Author of the programme; he chairs the examination board, signs every certificate issued and matches Circle members to engagements with organisations.

ERGP for teams and organisations

The people who answer for resilience rarely sit in one department: risk, continuity, internal audit, operations, IT. ERGP for teams brings them onto the same programme as a group, so the organisation ends up with one vocabulary and one standard of evidence.

What the sponsor gets: a single view of the group's progress and test results, a cohort schedule agreed with you, capstones built on your own organisation's scenarios where you choose, and an individual, verifiable certificate for each participant. In-house cohorts of up to 12 executives are priced as one engagement — see the price below.

Need the site crews covered as well? That is a different programme: SAFE, 32 chapters of workplace safety read on the phone within one shift. Both are listed on the page for organisations.

Price

IndividualUSD 990 · AED 3,650

In-house cohort, up to 12 executivesUSD 7,900 · AED 29,000

The individual price is per person, in either language. The certification exam, the capstone review and admission to the ERGP Circle are included. Prices exclude VAT.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the certificate accredited?

It is an independent professional certification issued by risk-place, and we say so openly. Its weight comes from the strict requirements of the programme: completing all six modules, passing the module tests and the capstone review.

Is it recognised by NCEMA?

NCEMA assesses organisations against the national standard; recognition of private programmes is outside its role. This programme certifies your personal competence in that landscape, the ability employers and clients actually hire for.

Does it make my company NCEMA 7000 compliant?

Compliance belongs to organisations and is assessed by authorities. The programme equips you to lead your organisation toward it, and the Module 5 mapping matrix is the practical starting point.

How is this different from CBCI or CBCP?

Those are respected practitioner credentials for the people who build continuity systems. This programme certifies the executive layer: governance, board accountability and regulatory navigation, built around the GCC regulatory landscape. Comparing certifications in the Gulf explains the differences in more detail.

What if I fail the assessment?

Module tests can be retaken, and the questions are shuffled on every attempt. One capstone re-submission is included; further review sessions are scheduled at cost. The pass threshold is what makes the certificate worth showing.

Can our whole leadership team take it?

Yes. The in-house track runs as a cohort on your own cases, and the capstone becomes a real board report for your organisation.

Can I see the course before I join?

Yes. Ask for a 30-minute Zoom walkthrough: we show the chapters, the checkpoint questions, the tests and the register, and answer your questions.

ERGP, the Executive Certificate in Enterprise Resilience Governance, is an independent professional programme by risk-place, provided as information and advisory services and access to the author’s materials. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or accredited by NCEMA, ISO or any other standardisation or certification body; standards and regulations are referred to as the regulatory context of the programme’s subject. The certificate confirms successful completion of the ERGP programme and its assessment; it does not attest any organisation’s compliance with any standard.

ERGP Executive Certificate: lead resilience before the board and the regulator

What it gives you

Why it is worth starting now

How the programme runs and when you get the certificate

The programme: six modules, 94 chapters, six working documents

See inside the course

AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000 inside ERGP, and the global layer

Standards coverage

What you join: the ERGP Circle

Senior practitioners: lend the Arabic edition your judgement

Assessed, verifiable, yours to show

Verify a certificate

Programme leadership

ERGP for teams and organisations

Price

Frequently asked questions

Join ERGP or see the course on Zoom

Read more

ERGP Executive Certificate: lead resilience before the board and the regulator

What it gives you

Why it is worth starting now

How the programme runs and when you get the certificate

The programme: six modules, 94 chapters, six working documents

See inside the course

AE/SCNS/NCEMA 7000 inside ERGP, and the global layer

Standards coverage

What you join: the ERGP Circle

Senior practitioners: lend the Arabic edition your judgement

Assessed, verifiable, yours to show

Verify a certificate

Programme leadership

ERGP for teams and organisations

Price

Frequently asked questions

Join ERGP or see the course on Zoom

Read more

The founding expert circle — Arabic edition