Chair of the Board – Nexus Councils

• Position: Board Council Chair (founding member) — Global Risk Forum (GRF) / Nexus Governance System
• Type: Founding governance leadership role (global / regional / national) responsible for a helix council and its standing committees; non-executive; strictly non-executing
• Eligibility Path: Join the GRF Council Registry as a subscribing member in good standing → serve as Council Member → eligible for appointment as Council Chair (global / regional / national) and committee chairing authority
• Location: International (distributed, hybrid; in-person cadence during Switzerland Flagship Week and quarterly governance sessions)
• Term: 3 Years (renewable once, subject to performance, independence, and seat-completion requirements)
• Time commitment: ~12–26 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around quarterly Nexus Reports issuance, dispute windows, and consortium actions)
• Apply here:  https://therisk.global/work/work/job/chair-of-the-board-nexus-councils-grf/

Context and Purpose

Risk is now the operating constraint of growth. Climate volatility, infrastructure fragility, cyber and outage cascades, health shocks, supply-chain disruptions, misinformation, and state fragility are increasingly coupled. Yet decisions still fail for the same reason: the work cannot be relied upon fast enough. Claims are contested, evidence is fragmented, accountability is unclear, and corrections happen late—if they happen at all. Capital is available globally, but it moves only where risk is legible, governable, and defensible.

GRF exists to remove the trust bottleneck. The Founding Council Chair role is for leaders who want to build the institutions the next decade requires. Chairs set the governance standard for the federation: they convene decision-makers, integrate technical work into policy-usable outputs, run disputes on a clock, and enforce correction-first credibility. Chairs do not “advise” markets; they build the neutral governance infrastructure markets and governments can safely rely on.

This is governance—not execution. GRF does not procure, select vendors, endorse products, operate markets, underwrite/place/custody, issue ratings, provide regulated advice, or make regulatory determinations.

Council System and Chair Seats (Helix Councils)

GRF is structured around five helix councils to ensure all-of-society legitimacy. Founding Chairs may be appointed at the global, regional, or national level depending on experience and portfolio needs.

1. State & Public Authorities Council (SPC): sovereign legitimacy, lawful-basis posture, public accountability, disclosure constraints
2. Industry & Operators Council (IOC): operational realism, critical infrastructure readiness, implementation feasibility
3. Academia & Research Council (ARC): scientific credibility, reproducibility, methods discipline, research-to-readiness conversion
4. Civil Society & Media Council (CMC): transparency, public trust, misinformation resilience, communications integrity
5. Communities & Indigenous Council (CIC): legitimacy, do-no-harm safeguards, local knowledge, protected participation and remedy

Chairs may establish standing committees under their council mandate (sector committees, methods committees, incident committees, regional committees) to scale participation and output quality.

Mandate of a Founding Council Chair

A Founding Council Chair is accountable for one outcome: the council produces governance-grade outputs that others can rely on—on time, under scrutiny, without capture.

• Design and chair a scalable committee structure aligned to the council mandate (e.g., sector committees for energy/water/health/food/finance; or methods and publication committees).
• Recruit, seat, and retain high-integrity members; ensure seat completion, credible diversity of viewpoints, and balanced representation across regions and risk contexts.
• Enforce member-in-good-standing rules: fit-and-proper standing, disclosures, participation expectations, and influence caps.
• Run monthly virtual council meetings focused on profile review: priorities, accuracy, and publishability decisions.
• Prepare the council for quarterly governance sessions: decisions ready, disputes pre-processed, corrections logged, and distribution posture clear.
• Lead council contributions into the annual General Assembly (Switzerland), where the federation finalizes major outputs, mutual recognition actions, and the next-year program.
• Oversee the council’s role in reviewing and improving the national portfolio readiness content published each quarter.
• Ensure every output is decision-ready: clear scope, what can be claimed, what evidence supports it, what limits apply, what must remain protected, and how corrections work.
• Ensure corrections are treated as institutional strength: versioned updates, redistribution discipline, and closure records—no silent revisions.

Deliverables and Performance Expectations

• A functioning council  and committee system with clear mandates, membership rosters, and output ownership.
• Monthly profile-review decisions that reliably close: approve / revise / defer / elevate—documented with rationale.
• Quarterly Nexus Reports contributions delivered on schedule with high publishability quality and low dispute drag.
• Measurable correction discipline: corrections issued promptly, redistributed reliably, and closed with accountability records.
• Membership growth and seat completion as core KPIs (without compromising independence or integrity).
• High trust posture: zero procurement implications, zero endorsement ambiguity, disciplined permitted-claims posture.

Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses

This is a founding leadership position designed to maximize trust, independence, and credibility.

• Governance authority is not paid. Chairs are not compensated for votes, approvals, profile outcomes, recognition decisions, enforcement actions, or any result tied to sponsorship or market outcomes. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). If Chairs take on build-year operational work beyond chairing—such as producing standardized council playbooks, committee frameworks, training modules, or publication templates—compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational deliverables: scoped, time-bounded, independently approved, auditable, and subject to conflict safeguards.
• Expenses may be reimbursed. Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses required for the role may be reimbursed in accordance with policy and handling requirements.
• Good standing is mandatory. Continuation depends on fit-and-proper standing, disclosures, participation, independence, and compliance with influence caps and communications integrity rules.

Opportunities for Leaders to Join

This is a rare chance to build durable governance infrastructure that will shape how the world manages risk. Leaders who serve as Founding Council Chairs will:

• Build the rules-of-the-road for readiness that governments and markets increasingly demand.
• Help make national portfolios investable by making risk legible, defensible, and corrigible—without compromising sovereignty.
• Set a new accountability standard: disputes handled on a clock and corrections treated as governance strength.
• Convene across sectors and borders in a system designed to turn claims into records and records into action.
• Be recognized as institution builders at the intersection of risk, finance, technology, policy, and resilience engineering.

Leaders Profile

We are seeking senior leaders (typically 15–25+ years) with credibility and operating maturity in one or more of:

• Government leadership, regulators, sovereign funds, central agencies, or multilateral processes
• Critical infrastructure and system-of-systems governance (energy, water, health, food, telecom, logistics, finance)
• Risk governance, audit, assurance, standards, due process, or institutional integrity systems
• Technology and data governance leadership (AI/model governance, cyber/OT resilience, evidence discipline)
• High-stakes convening under scrutiny (confidentiality, neutrality, disciplined documentation)

Capabilities and Mindset

• Builder mentality: comfortable designing committee systems, routines, templates, and decision discipline—not just chairing meetings.
• Integrity-first: uncompromising on non-execution boundaries, neutrality, and anti-capture safeguards.
• Calm under pressure: able to drive closure across divergent interests without compromising fairness.
• Technical fluency: able to engage with technical teams and understand evidence limits, model risks, and data constraints without becoming a vendor advocate.
• Clear writing and records discipline: able to produce decision-ready, executive-grade documentation.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

To preserve legitimacy and sustainability, chair eligibility follows a clear pathway:

• Join the GRF Council Registry as a subscribing member and remain in good standing.
• Serve as a Council Member (and optionally committee lead) with consistent participation and compliance.
• Become eligible for appointment as a Founding Council Chair (global/regional/national) based on fit, independence, performance, and seat needs.
• Accept full disclosure requirements, conflict controls, influence caps, and communications integrity rules.
• Avoid unmanageable conflicts or roles that create procurement implications, endorsement ambiguity, or regulated-activity confusion.