Location: Global (Distributed) | Flagship cadence anchored in Geneva (June; dates TBD) + sequenced global sessions (New York/Toronto → UAE → Singapore)
Seniority: CIO / Head of Investments / Partner / Managing Director / Board Member / Principal (Institutional, Family Office, Endowment, Sovereign, Corporate, Foundation)
Function: Systemic De-Risking | Portfolio Resilience | Non-Profit Institution-Building | Open Standards & Open-Source Risk Infrastructure | Exponential-Tech Governance (AI)
Council Seat: Fixed-term, invitation-led principal role (served alongside primary investment role) | Cohort is limited and strategically curated
A new era (why this exists now)
We are entering a new operating regime: exponential technology meets compound hazard. Frontier AI and autonomy, synthetic media, bioengineering, quantum, advanced compute, ubiquitous sensing, and digitized financial rails are accelerating the velocity—and the ambiguity—of risk across every sector.
In this regime, the binding constraint is no longer capital or intent. It is trust infrastructure: decision-grade intelligence, defensible governance, and adoption pathways that hold when markets, politics, security, and narratives collide.
Today’s gap is structural:
- risk intelligence is not settlement-grade (not comparable, not auditable, not correction-capable),
- governance is not decision-grade (fragile under scrutiny),
- standards remain fragmented and non-adoptable at scale, and
- the institutions capable of delivering public-interest risk infrastructure are under-built and under-funded.
This is precisely the moment where strategic investors step beyond deal flow and help build the system layer the world is missing.
The thesis
Systemic de-risking is infrastructure—like audit, accounting, and payments.
The next decade requires a shared risk rail: open standards, open-source tooling, and governance patterns that make risk decisions repeatable, testable, and publicly defensible—across jurisdictions, sectors, and hazard classes.
The Investor Council backs three non-profit frontier institutions being built to deliver that missing layer as an independent, public-interest utility:
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) — the R&D and build environment for sovereign-grade risk intelligence and open technical infrastructure (methods, benchmarks, tooling, reference implementations, testing and validation environments).
- The Global Risks Forum (GRF) — the world stage for risk governance and multilateral renewal: decision-grade convenings, adoption weeks, demonstrations and “implementation-ready” programming that turns frontier work into defensible institutional practice.
- The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) — the global association for risk financing and risk management: standards and adoption interfaces that align risk transfer and financing practices to auditable governance and responsible market architecture.
Not a fund. Not capital solicitation. This is institutional backing of non-profit public-interest infrastructure: standards, open source, and delivery-grade governance.
What you are backing
You are backing the institutions the global system lacks for the AI and exponential-tech era:
- a credible, neutral R&D + build environment for risk technology and methods (GCRI),
- a global adoption and legitimacy stage where serious work becomes deployable and defensible (GRF), and
- a professional association layer that standardizes responsible risk financing and management practices (GRA).
This is “all hazards, all of society” infrastructure—built to reduce systemic variance, accelerate responsible adoption, and strengthen institutional resilience.
Role (Investor Council = institutional backing + adoption acceleration)
This Council is not consultancy and not deal advisory. It is the principal room that ensures these non-profits are funded, resilient, independent, and globally positioned—and that their outputs reach adoption at scale. As a Council member, you will:
- back multi-year institutional resilience for GCRI / GRF / GRA (non-profit capacity, operating independence, program continuity)
- sponsor rigorous, cross-sector programming that drives standards adoption and reduces fragmentation
- shape priority lanes where systemic de-risking most affects portfolios and society (AI assurance and autonomy governance; cyber/outage cascades; critical infrastructure dependencies; climate/water volatility; supply corridor risk; biosecurity; quantum readiness; information integrity)
- activate participation pathways for your institution and ecosystem: Founding Backer, Partner, Host Institution, Early Adopter, Ecosystem Mobilization
- reinforce credibility under scrutiny through COI discipline, handling controls, influence-bounding, and public defensibility standards
- help build durable “system utilities,” not fragile initiatives
What you gain (strategic leader leverage)
Founding participation is structured to deliver immediate institutional advantage:
- Portfolio resilience advantage: earlier visibility into cross-sector regime shifts and dependency cascades that drive tail outcomes
- De-risking dividend: reduced variance in crisis decisioning through shared governance patterns, comparability, and correction discipline
- Frontier access with rigor: disciplined exposure to emerging risk infrastructure for AI and exponential tech—built for adoption, not hype
- Institution-building optionality: help shape long-lived public-interest utilities that become foundational to the next era
- Network effects that move adoption: principal cohort spanning sovereign, institutional, and operator systems—where implementation decisions happen
- Reputational defensibility: backing open standards and open source with governance-integrity safeguards and independence
- Acceleration pathway: GRF provides the global stage—flagship weeks, demos, and adoption windows—so frontier work becomes deployable practice
Institutional participation pathways (beyond the Council seat)
- Founding Backer Pathway — anchor operating independence and institutional resilience for GCRI/GRF/GRA and priority lanes.
- Partner Pathway — support cross-sector programming that increases adoption and reduces systemic variance.
- Host Institution Pathway — host build sprints, validation cycles, and adoption programming (frontier R&D + implementation readiness).
- Early Adopter Pathway — adopt open standards and governance patterns in investment, risk, stewardship, and portfolio resilience functions.
- Ecosystem Mobilization Pathway — enable portfolio companies and peer institutions to participate in sector councils and Guild/Lab workstreams.
Who we are inviting
Sovereign funds; pension funds; endowments; foundations; insurers; asset managers; infrastructure/alternatives investors; banks (balance sheet/treasury); corporate strategic capital; family offices and multi-family offices; development finance and catalytic capital institutions.
Eligibility
Required
- principal decision-maker with capital allocation influence (CIO/Head of Investments/Partner/MD/Board/Family Office Principal or equivalent)
- capacity to back multi-year non-profit institution-building (financial and/or in-kind, commensurate with role)
- systems orientation toward cross-sector systemic risk and long-horizon resilience
- integrity posture: COI disclosure/recusal readiness; handling controls; influence-bounding; public defensibility discipline
- intent to activate at least one pathway (Backer/Partner/Host/Early Adopter/Mobilize) within the 2026 cycle
Preferred (any 2)
- material exposure to critical infrastructure, climate transition, cyber, sovereign/corridor risk regimes, or frontier tech risk
- experience with standards bodies, open-source ecosystems, or institution-building
- ability to convene peer capital or strategic operators into adoption pathways
- leadership in responsible technology governance (AI-era risk, assurance, auditability)
Cadence
Low-noise, principal-compatible windows: periodic virtual sessions + Geneva Flagship Week (June; dates TBD) + sequenced global sessions (New York/Toronto → UAE → Singapore).
Next stepA short alignment call (15–20 minutes) to confirm fit, share the Orientation Pack and 2026 lane map, and select your institutional pathway.
Expression of Interest (3 lines)
- role + institution type (AUM/mandate category optional)
- one lane you care about most (AI assurance & autonomy; cyber/outage cascades; climate/water; corridor risk; biosecurity; quantum readiness; information integrity; critical infrastructure dependencies)
- which pathway you would activate first (Backer / Partner / Host / Early Adopter / Mobilize)