Foresight Platform Lead / Host

Position: Foresight Platform Lead / Host — The Global Risks Forum (GRF) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Strategic foresight convening, horizon scanning, and governance stress-testing leadership role (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board: Platform Leads are considered for senior council leadership and Board/Trustee nomination after serving in good standing
Location: International (distributed, hybrid; online + in-person convenings)
Term: 3 Years
Time commitment: ~20–40 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around flagship foresight forums, quarterly scenario releases, and cross-platform stress tests)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/work/job/foresight-platform-lead-host/

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Context and Purpose

National de-risking fails when institutions plan for yesterday’s risks. Compounding shocks, technology acceleration, cascading infrastructure failure, geopolitical spillovers, and social trust breakdown create non-linear risk landscapes. Traditional foresight is often siloed, speculative, and disconnected from standards, adoption pathways, and correction discipline—making it hard to translate into actionable readiness.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is a whole-of-society standards-and-legitimacy forum within the Nexus governance system. GRF’s Foresight Platform is the frontier stage for governance-grade foresight: horizon scanning, scenario architecture, stress tests, and early-warning governance signals that are publishable, correctionable, and usable—feeding standards evolution, evidence priorities, policy adoption guidance, and capital-readiness disclosure norms.

The Foresight Platform Lead / Host is accountable for end-to-end programming and growth of this platform: setting vision, curating and hosting convenings, building partnerships, producing open foresight governance assets, and expanding participation—while preserving neutrality, handling discipline, protected participation, and strict non-execution boundaries.

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Key Responsibilities

• Set the platform’s multi-year vision and annual program as a frontier global stage for governance-grade foresight in national de-risking readiness.
• Define signature programming (flagship forum + quarterly scenario/stress-test cycles) aligned to GRF standards and recognition releases.
• Establish platform norms: neutral posture, safe-publication boundaries, and clear separation between foresight outputs and predictive “claims.”
• Curate and host foresight forums, horizon scanning roundtables, scenario laboratories, tabletop exercises, and cross-platform stress tests.
• Convene diverse expertise: science/technology, infrastructure operators, finance risk leaders, public authorities, civil society/media, and community/Indigenous leadership—without bloc dominance.
• Ensure convenings produce structured outputs: scenarios, stress-test findings, early-warning signals, and publishable briefs.
• Produce an “open foresight stack” for national and regional adoption, including:
  • scenario frameworks and stress-test templates
  • horizon scanning taxonomies and signal registries
  • governance implications briefs: what standards, claims rules, or due-process mechanisms must change
  • early-warning governance triggers for convening escalation and “stop-the-line” criteria
  • correction and supersession guidance for foresight artifacts
• Ensure outputs are versioned, traceable, and correctionable; prohibit silent edits and retrospective rewriting.
• Provide structured inputs into GRF’s standards and recognition evolution: emerging risks that require new profiles, new evidence quality expectations, or updated claims boundaries.
• Coordinate with Research and Innovation platforms to translate foresight signals into evidence agendas and open implementation patterns.
• Coordinate with Policy and Capital platforms to translate foresight into adoption guidance, stress-tested disclosure norms, and comparability improvements.
• Maintain a “do-no-harm” posture: avoid publishing content that exposes vulnerable communities, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, or exploitation pathways.
• Maintain handling discipline: controlled sessions where sensitive vulnerabilities are discussed; public-safe publication posture with redaction rules.
• Maintain COI/recusal discipline and concentration controls; prevent foresight outputs from being used as influence tools or market-moving claims.
• Own platform growth KPIs: contributor pipeline, attendance, retention, geographic and constituency coverage, and participation quality.
• Build partnerships with foresight institutes, labs, observatories, and practitioner networks (governance-only, non-exclusive).
• Ensure protected participation norms: safe dissent, anti-retaliation routing, and respectful convening.

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Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses

• Governance authority is not paid. No compensation is linked to recognition outcomes, enforcement actions, dispute results, policy outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). Platform programming and production may be compensated only as time-bounded, deliverable-based operational services, independently approved, auditable, and never tied to substantive governance outcomes.
• Expenses may be reimbursed if documented, pre-approved, and policy-compliant.

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Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Build and host a frontier global stage for governance-grade foresight that directly strengthens national de-risking readiness.
• Publish open scenario and stress-test toolkits that governments and institutions can reuse to improve readiness.
• Shape standards evolution by identifying emerging risks early and translating them into governance changes.
• Convene cross-helix expertise in a neutral forum designed to withstand scrutiny and prevent capture.

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Leaders Profile

We are seeking senior leaders typically with 12–20+ years across one or more of:

• strategic foresight, scenario planning, horizon scanning, and stress testing in public or private institutions
• complex systems risk, cascading infrastructure risk, technology risk governance, or systemic financial risk
• crisis governance, resilience planning, and cross-sector convening under scrutiny
• research institute or policy platform leadership with strong publication and correction discipline

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Capabilities and Mindset

• Structured foresight: converts uncertainty into usable scenarios and stress tests, not speculative narratives.
• Neutral convenor: resists politicization and avoids market-moving claims.
• Safety-first publication: understands information hazards and controlled disclosure.
• Output-driven: convenings produce reusable artifacts (templates, briefs, registries).
• Correction-positive: embraces transparent updates and supersession as new signals emerge.

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Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a primary role outside the platform seat and can sustain cadence and surge periods.
• Willing to fully disclose relevant interests and comply with conflict-of-interest and recusal requirements.
• Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts or compromises neutrality.
• Accepts confidentiality, handling discipline, and communications integrity expectations.
• Commits to remain in good standing (participation, disclosures, and applicable contribution obligations).