1. General Assembly (GA)
The General Assembly is GCRI’s supreme decision-making body. Composed of all institutional and independent members, it ratifies major policies, strategic directions, and risk-response mandates. The GA ensures democratic participation, institutional transparency, and cross-sector representation in every aspect of GCRI’s mission.
2. Board of Trustees (BoT)
The BoT safeguards the long-term integrity, fiscal health, and strategic alignment of GCRI. Comprising global thought leaders, it reviews institutional performance, oversees budgets, and ensures alignment with GCRI’s founding mission. The Central Bureau, led by the Global Executive Officer (Group CEO), executes BoT mandates and provides operational continuity.
3. Global Stewardship Board (GSB)
The GSB provides macro-level strategic oversight, evaluating impact metrics, steering global initiatives, and aligning programs with the broader Nexus Ecosystem. It ensures that GCRI remains adaptive to systemic risks while maintaining mission fidelity across thematic and geographic domains.
4. Regional Stewardship Boards (RSBs)
Regional governance bodies translate GCRI’s global strategies into context-specific action plans, anchoring operations in local realities. Each RSB manages stakeholder engagement, strategic implementation, and issue-specific coordination within its geography. RSBs serve as bridges between local knowledge ecosystems and GCRI’s global governance, enabling mutual learning, innovation exchange, and adaptive resilience strategies across borders.
- RSB Africa
- RSB Asia
- RSB MENA
- RSB EU
- RSB North America
- RSB South America
5. Specialized Leadership Boards (SLBs)
SLBs direct the thematic and technical domains of GCRI, ensuring the scientific rigor, technological relevance, and cross-sectoral impact of its programs. These expert-led boards formulate and deploy research, training, and policy prototypes aligned with cutting-edge developments and real-world challenges. SLBs operate in collaboration with National Advisory Councils (NACs) to integrate local insights into regional and global planning frameworks. Focus areas include:
- Risk Awareness & Education
- Healthcare & Human Security
- Public Sector Resilience
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Supply Chain Security
- Data Governance & Sovereignty
- Economic Stability & Financial Risk
- Regulatory Foresight & Standards
- Security & Global Collective Action
- Innovation and Systems Design
6. National Working Groups (NWGs)
NWGs localize GCRI’s impact by adapting risk management standards and solution frameworks to country-specific contexts. These multi-stakeholder platforms foster national implementation of cross-cutting policies, tools, and indicators. Each NWG is supported by:
- National Advisory Councils (NACs) – expert panels guiding national strategies
- Host Institutions – universities, research centers, and innovation hubs
- Host Corporations – private sector partners aligned with GCRI’s risk-informed mandates
- Nexus Competence Cells (CCells) – operational units executing local innovation, monitoring, and training programs
7. Bioregional Assemblies
Bioregional Assemblies provide community-level governance, anchoring GCRI's work in local ecosystems, cultures, and realities. These assemblies engage civil society actors and local leaders in bottom-up co-creation, ensuring that solutions are socially inclusive, ecologically sound, and contextually appropriate. They serve as the grassroots input layer to RSBs and SLBs, enhancing transparency, responsiveness, and participatory planning.
8. Technical Management Divisions (TMDs)
TMDs manage GCRI’s technical portfolios across disciplines. TMDs work closely with SLBs and NWGs to translate frontier research into scalable, deployable solutions across domains. Structured into agile, cross-functional teams, they lead the development of:
- Nexus Ecosystem RRI
- Risk analytics platforms (e.g., OP, GRIx, iVRS)
- Simulation environments and decision-support systems
- AI/ML pipelines for Earth Observation and socio-economic modeling
- Digital twin-based infrastructure and resilience frameworks