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GCRI, GRF and GRA

Three pillar not-for-profit institutions lead the Nexus Consortium: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Each has its own public-good mandate, legal identity and website. None is the parent, agent or regulator of another. None speaks for the others. Part of How Nexus Consortium works.

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01Workspace

The workspace for GCRI, GRF and GRA.

Country programme console

GCRI, GRF and GRA · Country programme A · Month 8 · Example interface, not a record

National Model in buildGCRI · GCRI

Programme

  1. Formationdossier
  2. National Deskstaffed
  3. National Modelbuild
  4. Portfoliooptions
  5. Annual missiontest
  6. Reportedition

System coupling

dependency strength, 0 to 100

Example strengths a National Model replaces with estimates.

Evidence ledger

Reservoir storageOBSERVEDNational Desk
Hydropower outputMODELLEDTechnical office
Grid stressSCENARIOTechnical office
Hospital continuityESTIMATEDHealth ministry
Country programme console.Illustrative interface; not live data.

GCRI · Country programme console. Country programme console: example names and illustrative values, not a record.

02Mandates

Three institutions, three distinct mandates.

InstitutionLeads onLegal identityHome
GCRIConsortium Secretariat; evidence, methods and technical assistance; country programme formation; global contracting party in support of the consortiumsGCRI Canada, a Canadian not-for-profit organisation, and GCRI US, a separate organisation with its own legal identityCanada and the United States
GRFLeadership, institutional dialogue and Universe programme governanceA Swiss associationSwitzerland
GRATranslating risk evidence into finance, insurance and development-readiness questionsA nonprofit corporation registered in Nevada, United States, operating as a business league for the financial services industryUnited States
03Boundaries

What each institution does not do.

GCRI

No regulatory role

GCRI does not regulate, certify, license or approve. It prepares evidence; competent authorities decide.

GRF

No financing role

GRF does not regulate, finance, procure or certify. Hosting or sponsorship confers no authority. See GRF in the Consortium.

GRA

No transactions

GRA does not lend, underwrite, rate, invest, advise on or arrange transactions. Readiness is not approval. See GRA in the Consortium.

04Governance and structure

How the institution is governed.

Governance

Technical office and Secretariat

Consortium · Governance · Research · Platforms · Programme year · Foundry · Standards · Reports · Take part · Foundry year · Reports year · Handoffs · Contributed capacity · Programme states · Records · Report streams · The programme year · A national mission · Mission admission · Data and resources qualified · Build accepted for exercise · Action Week live operation · Stand-down and evidence sealed · Publication authorised · Correction and renewal · The Nexus cycle · National Nexus · Regional programmes · Working groups · Competence Cells and CERT · Joining as institution · Governance dialogues · Platform onboarding · Foundry builds · Labs · Reports · Standards adoption · Risk Academy · Index data intake · Finance readiness dossier · The Nexus Consortium · Twenty-seven phase cycle · Executable annual cycle · Complaint and appeal · Engineering change · Incident response and forensics · Provider exit and decommissioning · De-risking case handoff · Founding and institutional establishment · Consortium formation lifecycle · National Nexus formation · Constitutional amendment · Independent review and appeal · Correction and contestability · Body charter and council · Succession · Public interest and anti-capture · External authority hand-off · Funding · Ethics · Public transparency · Data stewardship and trust · Gates G0 to G7 · Forming the annual agenda · Adopting a Nexus Standard · NNC membership · Year-One leadership pathway · Working-group assignment by competence · National company and SPV · Public-authority interface and delegation · Annual Universe operating cycle · Provider qualification

GCRI is one institution working through two organisations, with GCRI Canada as Lead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation.

  1. 01 Two organisations

    1. 01GCRI CanadaStart · Canadian not-for-profit, OntarioLead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation.
    2. 02GCRI USStart · A separate organisationGCRI’s United States institution, with its own legal identity and responsibilities.

  2. 02 Secretariat and office

    1. 03Consortium SecretariatStep · GCRI CanadaCoordinates the programme and routes correspondence to the regional and country desks.
    2. 04Universe technical officeStep · GCRIScoping, qualification, the Core build, exercise control, evidence capture and closeout.

  3. 03 Roles of record

    1. 05Standards SecretariatRecord · GCRI CanadaGCRI Canada is Secretariat and publisher of record of the Nexus Standards.
    2. 06Academy issuer of recordRecord · GCRI CanadaNo credential is issued until the method, signing key and revocation path are on record.
    3. 07Reports publisherRecord · GCRIGCRI publishes Reports. GRF authorises publication at G6.

  4. 04 Limit

    1. 08Never regulates, certifies, licenses or approvesGate · GCRIFindings carry their methods and uncertainty. GCRI decides for no one.
    2. 09Authority decidesOutcome · The competent authorityDecisions and execution stay with the government, operator or licensed institution.

GCRI · GCRI Canada · GCRI USAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.

05Publishers

Each site speaks for its own institution.

  • therisk.global speaks for GCRI, and names GCRI Canada or GCRI US when one acts alone.
  • globalriskforum.com speaks for GRF, including its gateway to the independent Universe website.
  • globalriskalliance.com speaks for GRA.
  • Each site has its own privacy notice and controller, and enquiries are never shared across institutions.
06Statuses

Statuses stay with the institution that holds them.

GCRI’s statuses, such as special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), belong to GCRI only. They do not extend to GRF or GRA. See Affiliations and credentials. Board and governance sets out how decisions divide between the institutions.

07Questions

Questions and answers.

Is GCRI the parent of GRF and GRA?
No. The three are separate not-for-profit institutions. GCRI Canada is the Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation. That is a coordinating role, not ownership.
Which institution should I contact?
GCRI for evidence, methods, technical assistance and country formation; GRF for leadership, dialogue and Universe; GRA for finance, insurance and development-readiness questions.
Do the three institutions share my data?
No. Each site has its own privacy notice and controller, and enquiries are not shared across institutions.
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