The Global Risks Forum (GRF) convenes the people who shape policy and govern shared systems. An institution, a leader, an expert and a host each join by a different route, bring something different and receive something different. None of them buys authority over the agenda, a finding or a decision.
Council agendaA council session, where each pathway meets. Illustrative interface; example values.
01Choose a pathway
Four pathways, never interchangeable.
Each has a different member, a different first outcome and different limits. An institutional membership, a personal council seat, a working-group assignment and a hosting agreement are never mistaken for one another.
No fee amounts are published until one schedule is adopted with its issuer, currency, effective date and scope.
02Institutions
Institutions join through a constituency council.
In the National Nexus Consortium (NNC) the institution is the member. Here, institutions take part through five constituency councils; financial institutions and regulators through a cross-cutting pathway led with the Global Risks Alliance (GRA).
State and government
Research and universities
Industry and standards
Media and civil society
Communities and Indigenous institutions
01
Institutional enquiry
Your institution writes to the Secretariat and receives a reference.
02
Due diligence and authority check
The institution’s identity, mandate and the authority of its representatives are confirmed, and interests are declared.
03
Contribution plan
What the institution brings: representatives, capability, data under agreed rights, or programme support.
04
Terms for the programme
Written terms with the correct parties and scope.
05
Separate council nomination
A nomination to the Leadership Council, where relevant, follows its own selection procedure.
Institutional membership does not create a Leadership Council seat, and no contribution decides a technical conclusion, public authority or procurement treatment.
03Leaders
Leaders are selected first, then contribute.
The National Leadership Council (NLC), the Leadership Council on this site, is for individuals in a personal capacity. Selection precedes any payment, and a year of service produces a reviewed next step rather than an automatic appointment.
01
Application or nomination
With the evidence the selection procedure requests.
02
Diagnostic and review
A leadership and capability diagnostic, then a fit-and-proper and conflict review.
03
Invitation and terms
An invitation with the terms in force for the programme.
04
Baseline and contribution plan
A Leadership Baseline and an Annual Leadership Contribution Plan.
05
Quarterly evidence and Year-One Gateway
Quarterly work, mentoring and mission contribution, reviewed at the end of the first year.
Council standing does not buy office, employment, a board seat or restricted data, and an employer does not own a personal seat. Questions about nomination can go to the council application form.
04Experts and working groups
Experts take bounded, supervised work.
In the National Working Groups (NWG), the working groups on this site, experts, practitioners, students and volunteers take assignments that match their competence, with stated prerequisites, review points and closure criteria.
Specialist communities also work through GRF’s twelve platforms, each at its own address.
01
Explore current work
Work calls are listed once a working group is open.
02
Competence and availability
What you can do, and when.
03
Bounded assignment
A defined task with a named supervisor.
04
Contribution record and review
Your work is reviewed and recorded, then recognised with a next assignment where appropriate.
Ordinary participation has no fee. Paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements, and unqualified contributors never take safety-critical tasks.
05Hosts and supporters
Support the programme without steering it.
Hosts, venues, campuses, foundations and sponsors make convening possible. A written agreement sets out their role, with safeguards that keep the programme neutral.
Hosts
Hosting is not ownership
A host provides a venue or operational support. A hosting agreement is designed to give it a readiness decision, a responsibility schedule and a closeout record. No event is presented as confirmed before the host’s authority and readiness are evidenced.
Supporters
Sponsorship is not authority
A supporter funds a defined public-good capability under a contribution agreement, which is designed to include a use-of-resources report. Agreements disclose support and keep it separate from editorial and scientific decisions.
Safeguards designed into every agreement
01
No support buys an appointment, a finding, consent or a procurement advantage.
02
Sponsors cannot approve publications or change evidence.
03
Funding grants no ownership of the programme, its records or its results.
04
Neither hosting nor sponsorship secures a computing allocation or mission admission.
05
A host or sponsor is named only with its written permission and a current record.
06
Conflicts are declared, and anyone may raise a concern about capture.
Hosting and support proposals can go to the partnership form. A proposal is not a confirmed host, sponsor or event.
06National and regional participation
Countries own their programmes; regions connect them.
National structures set their own priorities under their own legal authority. GRF brings their leaders and institutions into dialogue and into the annual programme. It never represents a country.
National
Country-owned priorities
National structures keep agenda authority and may decline participation or data sharing. A city relationship never becomes national representation.
Regional
Shared-system questions
Six regions bring together questions that cross borders. No regional body binds a country, and withdrawal never erases other parties’ lawful work.
Annual programme
Contributions to Universe
National and regional missions are proposed and admitted through the annual cycle described on the Universe gateway.
Country formation, the regional desks and the planned hubs are coordinated by the Consortium Secretariat; see Work with GCRI. Regional desks are listed on Contact.
07What is open now
Today: information and enquiries.
Services open in steps. Each opens only when its team, terms and review capacity exist.
01
Information and enquiries
You can understand the programme and its current state, and send an enquiry that receives a reference.
Open now
02
Application
Candidates apply for a defined pathway with current terms and an appeal route.
Not yet open
03
Commitment
An accepted participant enters an agreement with the correct parties and scope.
Not yet open
04
Operation
Authorised participants take part in the scoped programme, mission or exercise.
Not yet open
08What an enquiry creates
Each step is only what it is.
An enquiry gets a reference and reaches the right team. It does not, by itself, create anything further.
This
Is not
An enquiry
Membership, a council seat or a commitment
A submitted application
Acceptance or membership
A claimed identity
Authority to represent an institution
A payment
An appointment or access to restricted data
An infrastructure offer
An allocation
A hosting proposal
A confirmed event
A country research profile
A constituted national programme or a local office
09Questions
Questions about membership and participation.
Can I join GRF today?
You can send an enquiry today and receive a reference. Applications, membership agreements and nominations open when their terms and review capacity are in place. Their current state is shown on this page.
Do governments or UN agencies need to buy membership?
No. Cooperation with public authorities and international bodies never depends on buying a membership tier. Agencies can take part through their own authorised instruments.
Does my employer own my Leadership Council seat?
No. Leaders are selected in a personal capacity. An employer does not own a personal seat, and the seat does not transfer if you change roles.
Is there a fee for working groups?
No fee applies to ordinary working-group participation. Paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements with their own terms.
What does a sponsor receive?
A contribution agreement for a defined public-good capability and a report on how the resources were used. A sponsor receives no influence over the agenda, participants, publications or findings.
How do I leave or raise a concern?
You can withdraw by notice. Concerns, including about capture or conduct, go through the routes on Governance and trust; complaints are designed to be reviewed by someone not responsible for the contested decision.
ReportsContribute
Contribute evidence from this page.
Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
Never send personal data, sensitive infrastructure detail or anything you have no right to share. A contribution is reviewed before use; sending it confers no authorship or editorial rights, and sponsorship never buys a finding.
Related
Read before you write.
Consortium Secretariat
Tell us what your institution can bring.
The Secretariat, held by the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI Canada) for the Nexus Consortium, confirms the pathway and what is open now. An enquiry receives a reference; it does not create membership, a seat or a commitment.
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