The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is a Swiss association and public-good institution building the de-risking infrastructure for global-to-local systemic risks

GRF exists to make complex risks more visible, governable, evidence-bearing, and actionable before they become crises, losses, failed projects, or unmanaged public liabilities. It provides the public-good governance, convening, and records layer through which sovereigns, public authorities, international organizations, development-finance institutions, insurers, banks, investors, infrastructure sponsors, frontier-technology leaders, universities, civil society, and implementation partners can organize disciplined readiness around the systems that determine resilience: water, energy, food, health, biodiversity, infrastructure, climate, disaster risk, digital systems, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, public finance, and social trust

GRF’s central operating model is the Nexus Consortium architecture: a national, regional, and global de-risking system that converts fragmented risks and project pipelines into structured portfolios, dependency maps, readiness records, safeguards awareness, finance-readable evidence, and lawful pathways for review by competent institutions

At the centre of GRF’s annual cycle is Nexus Universe, the flagship annual meeting and action environment for all-hazards resilience, frontier innovation, and whole-of-society readiness. Through an annual preparation cycle, a one-month Nexus Core build, and a one-week action program, Nexus Universe brings models, simulations, digital twins, secure data systems, AI tools, advanced connectivity, protocols, policy concepts, and resilience-finance methods into controlled test and simulation environments

The purpose is practical: to let national, regional, and global actors examine how risks interact, how systems fail, how technologies perform, how portfolios mature, how finance-readiness improves, and how public-good cooperation can be recorded and continued responsibly

GRF does not regulate, finance, procure, certify, underwrite, rate, invest, approve projects, issue guarantees, or replace governments, public authorities, multilateral institutions, development banks, insurers, investors, or formal due diligence processes

GRF builds the neutral public-good infrastructure for readiness: the forum, the records, the pathways, the safeguards, the annual cycle, and the disciplined environment where risk can be tested before it becomes failure