Council Board Member

Company: The Global Risks Forum (GRF) –

WebSite: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Job Description:Position: Founding Council Member, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) Type: Strategic risk-governance and standards council role (non-executive) Board: Council Members in good standing may be considered for Board nomination following a period of service. Location: International (distributed, hybrid) Term: 3 years Context and Purpose: The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is being established as the Nexus Ecosystem’s multilateral governance and assurance institution to address the limitations of the current global risk-governance architecture. This architecture is often fragmented, lacks accountability, and is disconnected from evidence, capital, and operational constraints, rendering it inadequate to address compounding climate, systemic, technological, and socio-political shocks. The GRF aims to build and steward the governance infrastructure for modern risk management, including Council Registers, scorecards, standards, and structured dialogues. This infrastructure will clarify responsibilities, timelines, and governing rules. The Founding Council serves as the GRF’s primary political, regulatory, and institutional leadership community, defining the ambition, parameters, and partnerships that will underpin a new era of risk governance and cooperative accountability. The Board will be selected from and accountable to this Council. As a Founding Council Member, you will contribute to establishing the constitutional, diplomatic, and institutional foundation for the GRF. Role Purpose: Shape the 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 dedicated to robust risk governance. Guide the GRF’s focus and operational approach. Contribute to the design of platforms, procedures, and norms that will provide enduring value. Serve as a liaison between the GRF and key public authorities, market rule-setters, and societal stakeholders. Participate in consideration for nomination or election to the GRF Board, contingent upon maintaining good standing as a Council Member. Key Responsibilities: As a Founding Council Member of the GRF, your responsibilities will include: Mission and Priorities: Collaboratively shaping the GRF’s mission and initial 3–5 year governance agenda, addressing climate, systemic financial, infrastructure, and technology risks. Registers and Scorecards: Contributing to the practical design of the Council Register (defining responsibilities) and scorecards (tracking and reporting progress). Standards and Assurance: Guiding the development 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 on the GRF’s interaction with existing multilateral, regional, and national institutions to ensure complementary and additive efforts. Access and Convening: Facilitating access to key governments, regulators, MDBs, standard-setters, industry bodies, and civil-society actors for participation in the GRF’s councils and platforms. Governance Culture: Reinforcing expectations of transparency, independence, balanced representation, and accountability throughout the 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 the GRF through appropriate membership streams. Candidate Profile: We are seeking pioneering leaders in governance, regulation, and system stewardship, typically possessing 15+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: 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. Candidates should possess a demonstrable track record of building or transforming institutions, coalitions, or governance frameworks, rather than solely operating within existing structures. Capabilities and Mindset: Strategic and systems thinker, capable of linking law, policy, regulation, evidence, capital, and operations. Institution and governance-framework builder, with an interest in designing registers, standards, scorecards, and procedures for adoption across multiple institutions. High-integrity public-interest orientation, capable of upholding a clear societal mandate amidst complex interests. Cross-domain convener, capable of bringing together ministers, regulators, CEOs, community leaders, and experts to facilitate the transition from discussion to agreed-upon rules and commitments. Long-term perspective, viewing the GRF as a multi-year endeavor to re-architect global risk governance and cooperative accountability. Eligibility, Membership, and Independence: Hold a full-time primary role and be able to commit sustained Council-level time. Commit to joining as a paid Founding Council Member and to remain in good standing (dues, engagement, disclosures). Meet integrity, independence, and professional standards consistent with the GRF Charter & Bylaws. Be willing to fully disclose relevant interests and abide by conflict-of-interest, ethics, and recusal policies. Not be in a position where Council service creates unmanageable conflicts.

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