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Interactive risk visuals
Maplecroft has developed a number of interactive movies and maps which provide a visual complement to the work of the Global Risk Network.
Flash movies
China
Climate Change
Corporate Governance
Earthquakes
Fiscal Risk
Oil Prices
Pandemics
Terrorism
Tropical Storms
Interactive maps
Knowledge links
A large number of businesses, government institutions, international bodies, think-tanks and NGOs have developed internationally-recognised expertise in parts of the global risk landscape. The reports that they have produced and the information they provide constitute a strong introduction to the nature of aspects of certain specific risks.
General
Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School
International Risk Governance Council
Maplecroft
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue
United Nations portal
World Bank portal
Geopolitical
Brookings Institution
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Human Security Report Project
Institute for Security Studies
International Crisis Group
International Institute for Strategic Studies
Rand
Reliefweb
Stockholm Institute for Peace Research Institute
Societal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School
Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation
World Health Organisation
Technological
Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
International Risk Governance Council
James Martin Institute
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
Economic
Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School
Economist Intelligence Unit
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
European Central Bank
Global Clearing House
National Bureau of Economic Research
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Roubini Global Economics
World Bank portal
World Trade Organisation
Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
Environmental
Carbon Trust
Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, Wharton School
Earth Institute
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Nature Conservancy
Pacific Institute
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
In addition to the above, the World Economic Forum has identified the following leading universities as having expertise on specific global risk issues, either through the work of individual academics or the work of research centres and departments.
Australian National University
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Columbia University
Ecole Polytechnique
Georgetown University
Harvard University
Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy
London Business School
London School of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Max Planck Society
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Peking University
Tsinghua University
University of California at Berkeley
University of Cambridge
University of Cape Town
University of Oxford
University of Tokyo
Yale University
Related Forum Initiatives
The World Economic Forum already has a wide number of initiatives which contribute to mitigating certain specific risks, either by proactively seeking to prevent the full emergence of that risk, or by providing a public-private platform for global reaction to risk events.
Disaster Resource Network
Financing for Development
International Monetary Convention Project
Global Health
Partnering Against Corruption
Energy Challenges
Global Governance
Facts about global risks
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China (PDF; 13 pgs, 354kb)
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Climate Change (PDF; 13 pgs, 2MB)
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Corporate Governance (PDF; 10 pgs, 185kb)
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Earthquakes (PDF; 10 pgs, 324kb)
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Fiscal Crisis (PDF; 10 pgs, 314kb)
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Middle East (PDF; 10 pgs, 192kb)
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Oil Prices (PDF; 10 pgs, 189kb)
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Pandemics (PDF; 13 pgs, 356kb)
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Terrorism (PDF; 12 pgs, 207kb)
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Tropical Storms (PDF; 11 pgs, 588kb)
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