Global Future Council on the Future of Complex Risks

Council mission and objectives

Recent trends indicate a growing propensity for multiple, deeply interconnected crises - or polycrises - occurring simultaneously and creating progressively worsening tipping points, building towards global instability and complete upheavals in how societies and economies operate. Which risks are most likely to be interconnected and create complex risk clusters?

Co-Chairs
Azeem Azhar, Chief Executive Officer, Exponential View

Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

Council Manager
Kevin Kohler, Insights Specialist, Global Risks Practice, World Economic Forum

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