Competence and expertise
Nexus Agency matches people to work by documented competence, not by title or affiliation. This page, published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), describes the fields in which the programme is designed to look for candidate specialists and who is eligible to put themselves forward. The fields follow the platforms of the Nexus network and the methods in the STEM Commons, so a candidate's skills can be read against a real question. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
- 01FieldsGovernance and institutions, Development finance
- 02STEM methods2 canonical methods applied
- 03Topics8 subject pages
- 04Counterparts9 platforms in shared fields
- 05PublisherThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
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The short answer.
Nexus Agency expertise is the set of fields in which the programme looks for candidate specialists, following the platforms of the Nexus network and the methods of the STEM Commons. A candidate is matched by documented competence, not by title or affiliation, so their skills can be read against a real question.
Jurisdictions in Europe.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for Europe as an example geography for this subject.
Where candidate specialists are sought.
The fields mirror the network of 63 platforms across GCRI, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), and the 54 methods of the STEM Commons.
Hazard, system and life sciences
Hydrology, climate and geoscience, ecology, epidemiology and the life sciences applied to risk.
Systems, data and infrastructure
Systems and resilience engineering, data engineering, geospatial analysis, computing, cybersecurity and AI assurance.
Quantitative and decision methods
Probability and statistics, uncertainty quantification, forecasting, optimization and decision analysis.
Policy, society and programme delivery
Policy science, social science, programme coordination and the institutional skills that carry evidence into decisions.
Who can put themselves forward.
- Senior experts, reviewers and technical contributors, for bounded assignments and review roles.
- Practitioners in government, operators, industry and civil society, for work in their own field.
- Students, early-career researchers and volunteers, for supervised tasks with a mentor and a learning plan, never an unsupervised high-consequence assignment.
- Institutions that can second staff under their own terms.
Eligibility is subject to the programme's sanctions and eligibility policy, conflict declarations and the safeguarding rules for the work concerned.
Expertise also flows through the national working groups.
In each national programme, the National Working Groups (NWG) gather experts and delivery teams by competence, without a fee. They are separate from the National Leadership Council (NLC) and from institutional participation in the National Nexus Consortium (NNC). See national working groups.
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Competence framework | A structured description of the skills and knowledge a role requires, such as ESCO. |
| STEM Commons | The shared reference of science, technology, engineering and mathematics methods for the Nexus network, hosted by GCRI, with one canonical page per method and a named steward platform. |
| Skills taxonomy | A structured classification of skills, such as ESCO, used to describe jobs and learning. |
Tell us what you know and what you have done.
Write to experts@therisk.global with your fields, methods and an outline of relevant work. Do not send identity documents or sensitive personal data at this stage. Your enquiry is used to answer you and to keep a record; it is never used for marketing or shared with GRF or GRA. Experts and students can also see GCRI pathways for experts and students.
Questions and answers.
Do I need a doctorate or a particular title?
Does registering interest create membership?
Can I contribute from any country?
Is there a directory of matched experts?
Around Nexus Agency.
Bring your expertise to this field.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.