GRF
Leadership and councils
The Global Risks Forum (GRF) builds leadership for shared risk through councils: institutions in constituency councils, individual leaders in the Leadership Council, experts in working groups. Each maps to one national participation pillar, so a seat, a membership and an assignment are never confused. Leading on shared risk means acting across mandates on incomplete evidence, then accounting for the result. See the council architecture and nominations and selection.
01Contents
Leadership and councils in seven parts.
In this dossier7 parts
- 01Three pillarsEach council belongs to one Nexus structure
- 02What leadership means hereAdaptive leadership across mandates
- 03Comparable structuresHow other forums organise leadership
- 04ConstituenciesFive constituency councils for institutions
- 05What councils produceCouncil work that others can use
- 06AccountabilityLeadership is measured by reviewed contribution
- 07SourcesWhere this page’s references lead
02Three pillars
Each council belongs to one Nexus structure.
| On this site | Nexus structure | Who is the member |
|---|---|---|
| Constituency councils | National Nexus Consortium (NNC), institutional participation | The institution, through authorised representatives |
| Leadership Council and national leadership councils | National Leadership Council (NLC), leadership | The selected individual, in a personal capacity |
| Working groups | National Working Groups (NWG), expert work | Experts and practitioners, by competence, with no fee for ordinary participation |
Global and regional councils are in formation. Their scope is published only once adopted.
03What leadership means here
Adaptive leadership across mandates.
Leadership research distinguishes technical problems, which an expert can solve with known methods, from adaptive challenges, which require the people with the problem to change how they work. Most shared risks are adaptive: a basin drought or a cross-border outbreak cannot be fixed by one agency’s expertise. Leadership in GRF’s sense is therefore the practice of convening across mandates, holding disagreement long enough to reach a workable arrangement and accounting for the result.
04Governance and structure
How the institution is governed.
Governance
Forum role and limits
Consortium · Governance · Councils · Dialogues · Programme year · Platforms · Standards · Reports · Take part · Universe year · Action Week · Handoffs · Programme states · The programme year · A national mission · Mission admission · Data and resources qualified · Build accepted for exercise · Action Week live operation · Stand-down and evidence sealed · Publication authorised · Correction and renewal · The Nexus cycle · National Nexus · Regional programmes · Working groups · Competence Cells and CERT · Joining as institution · Governance dialogues · Reports · Risk Academy · Finance readiness dossier · The Nexus Consortium · Twenty-seven phase cycle · Executable annual cycle · Complaint and appeal · Founding and institutional establishment · Consortium formation lifecycle · Constitutional amendment · Independent review and appeal · Correction and contestability · Registry entry · Body charter and council · Succession · Public interest and anti-capture · External authority hand-off · Funding · Public transparency · Gates G0 to G7 · Forming the annual agenda · NNC membership · Year-One leadership pathway · Public-authority interface and delegation · Annual Universe operating cycle · Participation campaign
A Swiss association with a public-good, not-for-profit purpose that leads dialogue and stewards Universe without regulating, financing, procuring or certifying.
01 Legal form
- 01Swiss associationStart · Statutory organsA Swiss association under the Swiss Civil Code, with its published location in Zug.
02 Mandate
- 02Leadership and dialogueStep · The Global Risks ForumGRF leads institutional dialogue across the Nexus Consortiums.
- 03Four programme decisionsDecision · The Global Risks ForumThe annual mandate, mission admission, the gate decisions and publication authorisation.
03 Never
- 04Never regulates, finances, procures or certifiesGate · The Global Risks ForumPolicy, operational and financial decisions stay with the competent authority.
04 Works with
- 05The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) technical officeRecord · GCRIGCRI runs the technical office. GRF has no contracting authority for GCRI Canada.
- 06The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) finance readinessRecord · The Global Risks AllianceGRA reads records with financial implications and returns options notes.
- 07Recorded statusesOutcome · The Global Risks ForumGRF records no external status at present. Global and regional councils are in formation.
The Global Risks Forum · Institutional statusAn outline of how the work is designed to run; it does not report the status of any decision or record.
05Comparable structures
How other forums organise leadership.
| Structure type | Example of the type | What GRF takes from it |
|---|---|---|
| Constituency-based stakeholder groups | The major groups and other stakeholders system at the UN | Each constituency organises itself and chooses its own representatives |
| Independent expert panels | Panels appointed in a personal capacity to advise intergovernmental processes | Members serve as individuals, not as delegates |
| Networks of practitioners | Professional associations of emergency managers or regulators | Peer accountability through published practice |
Council design is set out under council model and roles and limits.
06Constituencies
Five constituency councils for institutions.
Financial institutions and regulators take part through a cross-cutting pathway led with The Global Risks Alliance (GRA), described on GRA industry councils.
07What councils produce
Council work that others can use.
- 01
Questions
Councils put forward the governance questions that shape dialogues and the annual Universe mandate.
- 02
Deliberation on findings
Leaders deliberate on what exercises and evidence reveal, with dissent recorded, before findings are offered to Reports.
- 03
Records
Agendas, approved minutes and commitments are published as participants agree; see Council work and transparency.
- 04
Proposals
Where councils find that institutions lack a common method or record format, they can file a change proposal under the Nexus Standards development process.
08Accountability
Leadership is measured by reviewed contribution.
Baseline
A starting point
Each leader begins with a Leadership Baseline and an annual contribution plan.
Evidence
Quarterly work
Contribution is recorded quarterly and reviewed, not counted by attendance.
Gateway
A reviewed next step
A Year-One Gateway produces a reviewed next step, not an automatic appointment.
Information and enquiries are open today. Nominations open only when their terms and review capacity are in place. Questions about councils go to the council application form; the acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step. See also What membership means.
09Sources
Where this page’s references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
10Pages
Pages in Leadership and councils.
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Council architecture
PageGlobal leadership role
PageRegional leadership
PageNational leadership
PageState and government constituency
PageResearch and universities constituency
PageIndustry and standards constituency
PageMedia and civil society constituency
PageCommunity and Indigenous constituency
PageNominations and selection
PageLeadership development
PageCouncil work and transparency
PageWhat membership means
11Questions
Questions and answers.
Are GRF’s councils its board?
No. GRF is governed by its statutory organs under its articles of association. Councils are programme bodies and do not replace or sit above that governance. See Formal governance.
Does an institutional membership include a Leadership Council seat?
No. Institutional membership does not create a Leadership Council seat. A nomination follows its own selection procedure.
Does my employer own my seat?
No. Leaders are selected in a personal capacity, and a seat does not transfer if you change roles.
Can I join a council today?
You can send an enquiry today and receive a reference. Applications and nominations open when their terms and review capacity are in place.
The Global Risks Forum
Bring a governance question to the Forum.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
Legal
Legal documents.
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