GCRI Canada
The Consortium Secretariat, the regional desks and the global contracting party for the national and regional consortiums. It handles agreements, privacy requests and security reports for therisk.global.
To contact GCRI, The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation, write to the Consortium Secretariat or to the desk for your region. Every enquiry receives a reference and is routed to the team and the organization responsible for it. Specific matters have their own addresses below.
Every enquiry receives a reference · service level R0
The Consortium Secretariat sits with GCRI Canada. It receives programme enquiries, cooperation requests and concerns, gives each a reference and routes it.
Each matter has its own GCRI Canada address, except GCRI US. Every route names the first outcome and how it is handled; compose opens your email with a short brief. Programme enquiries stay with the Secretariat and the regional desks.
Programme and cooperation enquiries go to the Consortium Secretariat at contact@therisk.global, which gives a reference and routes them.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to research@therisk.global about research collaboration and independent review.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to partnerships@therisk.global for institutional cooperation, and technology or infrastructure offers.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to experts@therisk.global about assignments, review roles and supervised contribution.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to integrity@therisk.global. A correction is a new version with its history, never a silent edit.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to safeguarding@therisk.global. Concerns are handled on a restricted route. In danger, contact local emergency services first.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to security@therisk.global, without exploit details or personal data in a first message.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to privacy@therisk.global, for the Interim Privacy Officer of GCRI Canada.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to media@therisk.global. Figures are quoted with their evidence label and limits.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
Write to gcrius@therisk.global for work within the scope of GCRI US in the United States.
The message opens in your email with a short brief to fill in. It receives a reference; it creates no membership, role or commitment.
How each concern is reviewed is set out on Trust and integrity.
Four stages, each held by a named team and each leaving a record. The service level is R0: information and enquiries, with no response time promised beyond the acknowledgement.
An acknowledgement with a reference.
The name of the team that holds your enquiry and the next step.
An answer, a conversation, or a referral to the institution that can act.
A closing note. A correction becomes a new version with its history.
Regional desks handle enquiries about national programmes and shared systems in their region. A desk is a mail route, not an office.
| Region | Desk | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | africa@therisk.global | Shared basins, power pools and corridors |
| Asia and the Pacific | asiapacific@therisk.global | Monsoon basins, manufacturing networks and island states |
| Europe and Eurasia | europeeurasia@therisk.global | Interconnected grids, energy transition and corridors |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | latinamericacaribbean@therisk.global | Amazon and Andean systems, hurricane-exposed islands, food corridors |
| Middle East and North Africa | middleeastnorthafrica@therisk.global | Water scarcity, energy transition and strategic corridors |
| North America | northamerica@therisk.global | Integrated grids, continental supply chains and the Secretariat seat |
Countries under the platform's sanctions and eligibility policy have no desk or enquiry route.
GCRI is one institution working through two organizations, each with its own legal identity. Write to GCRI US directly about its work; the Secretariat routes anything else to the organization responsible.
The Consortium Secretariat, the regional desks and the global contracting party for the national and regional consortiums. It handles agreements, privacy requests and security reports for therisk.global.
The United States institution of GCRI, a separate organization with its own legal identity and responsibilities, for work within its own scope in the United States.
Leadership and Nexus Universe enquiries belong to The Global Risks Forum (GRF), and Nexus Universe has its own website. Finance readiness and membership of the business league belong to The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Each institution answers for its own site.
A clear enquiry is easier to route. The current service level is information and enquiries, so no response time is promised; the acknowledgement gives your reference and names the next step.
Your name, your institution and role, and whether you write on its behalf.
The country or region, and the question or concern in a few sentences.
A conversation, a document, a correction or a referral.
Restricted data, passwords or sensitive personal information about others.
What you send is used to answer your enquiry and to keep a record of it, under the privacy notice of therisk.global. GCRI Canada is the controller for this site; GRF and GRA have their own notices and controllers. Write to privacy@therisk.global about your personal data.
This site is designed to meet WCAG 2.2 level AA. We test pages and fix barriers we find. Report a barrier to privacy@therisk.global or contact@therisk.global.
Where an enquiry form appears on this page, it gives a reference in the same way as email.
An enquiry does not create membership, an appointment or a service contract.
Each term as this institution uses it on this page.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Consortium Secretariat | The coordinating office of Nexus Consortiums, held by GCRI Canada in Toronto, which receives programme enquiries, gives each a reference and routes it. |
| Regional desk | A published mail route for enquiries about national programmes and shared systems in one of six regions; a desk is not an office. |
| Reference | The record number an acknowledgement gives an enquiry; it names the next step and creates no membership, role, access or commitment. |
The Secretariat confirms the right route and the conditions for any further step.