What is the Global Risks Forum (GRF), and why was it created?

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) was created as a direct response to a widening global crisis in how humanity manages systemic risks. From climate breakdown and pandemics to AI misalignment, cyber warfare, ecosystem collapse, and economic volatility, the world is facing challenges that cross borders, sectors, and disciplines—but existing institutions have often proven too slow, too fragmented, or too politicized to respond effectively.

GRF was founded to fill this governance gap. It is a non-governmental, multilateral platform built to bring together leaders from across sectors—government, science, civil society, technology, business, and finance—to coordinate practical, forward-looking action on the world’s most urgent and interconnected risks.

The Genesis: Why Now?

The last decade has exposed several structural failures in global risk management:

• Climate and Environmental Shocks: Wildfires, floods, droughts, and biodiversity loss have intensified, but climate finance, early warning systems, and implementation mechanisms remain weak or uncoordinated.
• Health and Biological Threats: COVID-19 revealed deep gaps in global health governance, information-sharing, and cross-border preparedness.
• Technology and AI Risks: The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and digital surveillance has outpaced regulation, ethics, and international cooperation.
• Economic Instability and Debt Risks: Global debt levels, inflation shocks, and financial system fragility—especially in the Global South—threaten sustainable development and equitable recovery.
• Geopolitical Fragmentation: Increasing geopolitical tension has paralyzed many existing multilateral institutions and undercut their ability to govern shared risks in real time.

GRF emerged to rebuild global cooperation from the ground up, focused on real-world coordination, trust-building, and resilience—not bureaucracy.

What Makes GRF Different?

GRF is not a traditional policy forum or think tank. It is the interface layer between four major institutional pillars:

1. GCRI (Global Centre for Risk and Innovation) – the scientific and technical engine behind global foresight, simulation systems, and clause-based governance tools.
2. GRA (Global Risks Alliance) – a capital formation and deployment alliance that finances and accelerates high-impact, risk-reducing solutions.
3. NE (Nexus Ecosystem) – an open-source, sovereign-grade infrastructure enabling countries, institutions, and communities to predict, model, and manage risk collaboratively.
4. PNG (Planetary Nexus Governance) – the constitutional framework that governs how foresight, policy, and capital are aligned across local, national, and international levels.

Together, these form a new generation of multilateral risk infrastructure—independent of political capture, powered by public interest science, and governed by its members.

GRF’s Mission

GRF’s mission is to ensure that:

• Risk does not remain abstract, but becomes actionable, funded, and locally adapted;
• Institutions have trustworthy pathways to plan for the future, respond to crises, and shape innovation responsibly;
• A new model of diplomacy and governance emerges—one where participation is earned through leadership, not limited by borders or bureaucracy.

By joining the GRF Leaders Council, members help shape this mission. They participate in national and regional bodies (NWGs and RSBs), shape the annual foresight agenda, and guide the development of corridors, partnerships, and financing strategies that make the world safer and more prepared.

GRF is not about rhetoric—it is about results. It transforms risk knowledge into resilient systems. It shifts governance from reaction to anticipation. And it invites leaders like you to help co-create the future of global cooperation.