Mark Elsner
Head, Global Risks

Grace Atkinson
Insights Specialist, Global Risks

Saadia Zahidi
Managing Director, World Economic Forum

At the World Economic Forum, a debt of gratitude is owed to Professor Klaus Schwab (Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees) and Børge Brende (President), under whose guidance this report has been produced. This report has relied heavily on the dedication and expertise of World Economic Forum colleagues: Ricky Li, Ignacio Moreno and Gayle Markovitz.

The report has greatly benefited from the insight and expertise of the members of the Global Risks Report Advisory Board: Rolf Atler (Hertie School of Governance); Azeem Azhar (Exponential View); Amitabh Behar (Oxfam); Sarah Cottle (S&P Global); Nita Farahany (Duke University); Niall Ferguson (Stanford University); Charles Godfray (Oxford Martin School); Jim Leape (Stanford University); Robert Muggah (Igarapé Institute); Eleni Myrivili (UN Habitat); Jonathan Ostry (Georgetown University); Carol Ouko-Misiko (Institute of Risk Management); Eduardo Pedrosa (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council); Danny Quah (National University of Singapore); Daniel Ralph (Cambridge Centre for Risks Studies); Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University); Samir Saran (Observer Research Foundation); John Scott (formerly Zurich Insurance Group); Richard Smith-Bingham (formerly Marsh McLennan); Effy Vayena (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich); Charlotte Warakaulle (CERN); Amy Webb (Future Today Institute); Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Graduate Institute Geneva); Ngaire Woods (University of Oxford); and Alexandra Zapata Hojel (Future Tense Now).

We are also grateful to the following individuals from our Risk Communities:

Chief Risk Officers Community: Nadir Ahmed (Omnivest); Eric Allen (Russell Reynolds); Yazid Alsabi (NDF); Fredrik Arnö (Vattenfall); Cherie Axelrod (Western Union); Oliver Bartholet (Bank Julius Baer & Co); Alison Bewick (Nestlé); Vanessa Candela (Celonis); Giuliano Carrozza Iorio (Petrobras); Manoj Chawla (Emirates NBD); Laurie Cherpock (Chanel); Pedro Cupertino de Miranda (Sonae); Diane Doering (Takeda Pharmaceutical Company); Mohamed Dukandar (e&); Andressa Duran (Vale); Rui Eustáquio (EDP); Adam Farber (Boston Consulting Group); Natasha Fields (World Trade Organization); Ed Fishwick (BlackRock); François-Marie Gardet (Holcim); Peter Giger (Zurich Insurance Group); Amy Gradnik (S&P Global); Bob Graham (Deloitte); Karen Griffin (Mastercard); Arun Hari (Gulf International Bank); Erin Harris (Accenture); Bahare Heywood (Clifford Chance LLP); Mats Holmström (SEB); Deborah Hrvatin (CLS Bank International); Thomas Kyhl (PensionDanmark); Alex Markovski (Rio Tinto); Enrica Marra (Mundys); Pierre-Yves Mathonet (Mubadala Investment Company); Bhaskar Mehta (GFH Financial Group); Jody Myers (US International Development Finance Corporation); Heike Niebergall-Lackner (International Committee of the Red Cross); Torben Oeder (Volkswagen); Enrico Piotto (EFG International); Sriram Ramchandran (Mahindra Group); Hanne Raatikainen (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees); Senem Rena (Aydem Enerji); Mark Steele (OakNorth Bank); Lakshmi Shyam- Sunder (World Bank); Maria Thestrup (Gavi); Richard Thomas (Mercuria Energy Group); Christopher Townsend (Allianz); Iliyana Tsanova (European Commission); Gary Turner (Bain & Company Inc); Yoshihiro Uotani (SOMPO Holdings); Alex Vallejo (PG&E); Jacob van der Blij (UNICEF); and Damian Vogel (UBS AG).

Global Future Council on Complex Risks: Saif Al-Dhaheri (UAE National Emergency and Crisis Management Authority); Nayef Al-Rodhan (Oxford University); Antonius Alijoyo (Center for Risk Management and Sustainability); Abdullahi Alim (International Chamber of Commerce); Azeem Azhar (Exponential View); Alta Charo (University of Wisconsin); Lisa Donahue (AlixPartners); Peter Engelke (Atlantic Council); Roya Ensafi (University of Michigan); Florence Gaub (NATO Defense College); Maha Hosain Aziz (New York University); Vikram Mansharamani (Independent Thinker); Nasser bin Nasser (Ambit Advisory); Mwanda Phiri (Charter Cities Institute); Frida Polli (Alethia); Maxime Stauffer (Simon Institute for Longterm Governance); Araz Taeihagh (National University of Singapore); Jessica Tan (Sunlife); Anna Tunkel (Sustainable Impact LLC); Ngaire Woods (University of Oxford); and Ya-Qin Zhang (Tsinghua University).

This report has relied on the expertise of our colleagues who provided inputs: Thom Almeida; Maria Alonso; Minos Bantourakis; Armita Behboodi; Shyam Bishen; Matthew Blake; Sebastian Buckup; Morgan Booher; Agustina Callegari; Aengus Collins; Nicole Cowell; Attilio Di Battista; Daniel Dobrygowski; Sean Doherty; Sean Doyle; Mirek Dušek; Sam Grayling; Philipp Grosskurth; Annika Green; Sriram Gutta; Susanne Helmsley; Audrey Helstroffer; Ximena Játiva; Akshay Joshi; Jeremy Jurgens; Christian Kaufholz; Kateryna Karunska; Ariel Kastner; Akanksha Khatri; Aoife Kirk; Connie Kuang; Benjamin Larsen; Till Leopold; Cathy Li; Tobias Lindström Battle; Leandro Loss; Jessica Margolis; Sriharsha Masabathula; Eleni Michalopoulou; Braulio Eduardo Morera; Haleh Nazeri; Kelly Ommundsen; Kim Piaget; Drew Propson; Jahanara Rahemtulla; Don Rodney Junio; Jean-Philippe Salcedo; Miriam Schive; Clemence Schmid; Shuvasish Sharma; Brynne Stanton; Sheikh Tanjeb Islam; Kesang Tashi Ukyab; Matthew Watkins; Roddy Weller; and Katie Young.

In addition to those mentioned above, we extend our thanks to the following colleagues: Charlotte Beale; Sakshi Bhatnagar; Anna Bruce-Lockhart; Harry Gray Calvo; Eoin Ó Cathasaigh; Beatrice Di Caro; Kateryna Gordiychuk; Rasha Hasbini; Stephanie Holmes; Jamie Mathew John; Sybile Penhirin; Robin Pomeroy; Emily Poyser; Anais Rassat; Julia Rignot; Kirsten Salyer; Marie Vilon; and Yann Zopf.

We extend our thanks to the Institute of Risk Management (Carol Ouko-Misiko and Victoria Robinson), the Institute of Risk Management India (Hersh Shah), Oxfam (Amitabh Behar), Heiko von der Gracht, and Ostap Lutsyshyn for support with the GRPS.

Design and Production: Thank you to all those involved in the design and production of this year’s report and related assets: Luca Bottani, Davide Bruno, Francesco Cordola, Mike Fisher, Floris Landi, Pietro Guinea Montalvo, Jean- Philippe Stanway and Alessandro Zotta.

We would also like to thank Salesforce (Justine Moscatello and Campbell Powers) and Lovelytics for the design of the interactive global risks data visualization.