Board Council Member

Position: Founding Council Member, The Global Risks Forum (GRF)

Type: Strategic risk-governance and standards council role (non-executive)

Board: Council Members may be considered for Board nomination after joining and serving in good standing

Location: International (distributed, hybrid)

Term: 3 years

Today's global risk-governance architecture was not built for compounding climate, systemic, technological, and socio-political shocks. Governance is often:

• Fragmented across institutions, mandates, and sectors
• Weak on accountability, with limited follow-through on commitments
• Disconnected from evidence, capital, and operational constraints

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is being established as the Nexus Ecosystem's multilateral governance and assurance institution. Its purpose is to build and steward the governance rail for modern risk managementCouncil Registers, scorecards, standards, and structured dialogues that make clear who is responsible for what, on what timelines, and under which rules. The Founding Council is GRF's primary political, regulatory, and institutional leadership community. It defines the ambition, guardrails, and partnerships that will anchor a new era of risk governance and cooperative accountability. The Board will be drawn from, and accountable to, this Council. As a Founding Council Member, you will help set the constitutional, diplomatic, and institutional foundation for GRF.

As integral part of nexus ecosystem GRF works with GCRI proudly holds Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and is a Civil Society Organization (CSO) member of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). As a key player in global governance and risk reduction, GCRI actively participates in the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage and collaborates with National Working Groups (NWGs) in over 120 countries.

• Shape GRF's mission, governance agenda, and standards strategy
• Define and uphold standards of legitimacy, independence, and public-interest alignment
• Anchor a global coalition of states, regulators, markets, infrastructure operators, academia, and civil society committed to serious risk governance
• Guide what GRF focuses on and how it works
• Help design platforms, procedures, and norms that will outlast them
• Act as connectors between GRF and key public authorities, market rule-setters, and societal stakeholders
• Council Members in good standing may later be nominated or elected to the GRF Board.
  

As a Founding Council Member of GRF, you will focus on:

• Mission and priorities: Co-shaping GRF's mission and initial 35 year governance agenda across climate, systemic financial, infrastructure, and technology risks.
• Registers and scorecards: Helping define the practical design of the Council Register (who is responsible for what) and scorecards (how progress is tracked and surfaced).
• Standards and assurance: Guiding the creation of concise, usable standards and assurance profiles that align GCRI evidence, GRA programs, and NSF protocol rules into a coherent governance baseline.
• Dialogue and simulations: Shaping high-value dialogues and simulations where states, markets, and communities can test policies and instruments before crises and agree on clear follow-up actions.
• Institutional interfaces: Advising how GRF should interact with existing multilateral, regional, and national institutions so work is additive, not duplicative.
• Access and convening: Opening doors to key governments, regulators, MDBs, standard-setters, industry bodies, and civil-society actors who should sit in GRF's councils and platforms.
• Governance culture: Reinforcing expectations of transparency, independence, balanced representation, and accountability across GRF's processes.
• Participation and membership growth: Joining as a paid Founding Council Member, actively participating in Council work, and encouraging high-caliber peers and institutions to join GRF in appropriate membership streams.
  

We are seeking frontier leaders in governance, regulation, and system stewardship, typically with 15+ years in one or more of:

• Government and public finance ministers or senior officials in finance, planning, environment, resilience, interior, or equivalent portfolios.
• Central banking, supervision, and regulation senior roles in central banks, supervisory authorities, or sector regulators.
• Multilateral and regional institutions leadership roles in MDBs, UN entities, regional organizations, or standard-setting bodies focused on risk, resilience, or systemic stability.
• Critical infrastructure and system stewardship senior roles in utilities, networks, platforms, or industry bodies with system-wide responsibilities.
• Civil society, academia, and knowledge institutions leaders who have shaped norms, standards, or institutions in risk governance.

Capabilities and Mindset

• Strategic and systems thinker, linking law, policy, regulation, evidence, capital, and operations.
• Institution and governance-framework builder, interested in designing registers, standards, scorecards, and procedures that multiple institutions will follow.
• High-integrity public-interest orientation, able to hold a clear societal mandate amid complex interests.
• Cross-domain convener, able to bring together ministers, regulators, CEOs, community leaders, and experts and move from discussion to agreed rules and commitments.
• Long-term perspective, seeing GRF as a multi-year effort to re-architect global risk governance and cooperative accountability.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a full-time primary role and can commit sustained Council-level time.
• Commits to join as a paid Founding Council Member and to remain in good standing (dues, engagement, disclosures).
• Meets integrity, independence, and professional standards consistent with the GRF Charter & Bylaws.
• Willing to fully disclose relevant interests and abide by conflict-of-interest, ethics, and recusal policies.
• Not in a position where Council service creates unmanageable conflicts.