Job Title: Leadership Council Member (Non-Executive) — GRF Leadership Council (Individual Executive Seat)
Employment Type: Fixed term (3 years)
Location: International / Distributed (Remote/Hybrid)
Travel: Occasional (flagship US, Canada, Switzerland, UAE, Singapore + satellite convenings)
Overview
The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is appointing a small cohort of senior executives to the Leadership Council—the gateway for individual leaders who want to participate personally in building the world-stage operating discipline for global risk management, resilience finance, critical infrastructure continuity, and frontier technology risk.
This is not only a conference pass, an advisory panel, or an honorary title.
It is a working, non-executive governance seat for leaders who carry real responsibility and can contribute judgment under scrutiny.
How GRF participation is structured
* Leadership Council (this role): the only individual-based council—leaders join personally.
* Sector Councils: reserved for institutional members and their appointed representatives.
* Guilds & Labs: produce the technical work (methods, templates, playbooks, evidence packs).
* The Leadership Council sets priorities, steers the convening agenda, and ensures outputs are adoption-ready—without doing delivery work.
Why this matters now
Systemic shocks increasingly behave like correlated continuity and legitimacy failures—climate volatility, macro stress, cyber/outage cascades, infrastructure fragility, and AI-driven acceleration of both innovation and failure modes. Institutions are forced to decide faster, with higher scrutiny and lower tolerance for error. GRF exists to reduce variance across jurisdictions and sectors by building governance-grade operating discipline—neutral, auditable, and usable—so institutions can move from insight to action without breaking trust.
What you will do
* Set priorities across GRF’s multi-domain agenda (risk governance, finance, technology, resilience, legitimacy).
* Steer the cadence: monthly executive sessions and quarterly working sessions aligned to proof cycles and flagship convenings.
* Review and challenge major outputs for scrutiny-readiness, neutrality, and real-world implementability.
* Sponsor adoption pathways inside your institution by translating priorities into implementable internal action (governance-grade patterns, not consulting).
* Uphold conflict disclosure, recusal, confidentiality/handling, and communications integrity requirements.
* Not paid employment, consulting, lobbying, or a procurement channel.
Who we are inviting
Current C-suite / EVP / SVP / MD / Partner / Board-level officers (or equivalent principals) across:
public authorities and sovereign readiness; banking/insurance/asset management/capital markets; exchanges/market utilities/payments/clearing/custody; technology/cyber/critical infrastructure continuity; research/standards/assurance; integrity/legitimacy/public accountability.
Time commitment
* Monthly: 90-minute session + brief preparation (optional but encouraged)
* Quarterly: one extended working session aligned to proof cycles/flagship cadence
* In-person: annual convenings (optional but encouraged)
Executive ROI:
1) Better decisions under scrutiny (risk + board utility)
* A cross-sector calibration room that reduces blind spots and “single-industry thinking.”
* Decision-grade inputs you can take straight into: Board Risk Committees, audit/risk governance, resilience investment cases, supervisory dialogues, and continuity planning.
* Faster alignment on what “good” looks like—so you spend less time debating basics and more time executing.
2) Direct operational advantage (continuity, resilience, and risk cost)
* Early visibility into emerging failure modes (outage cascades, third-party concentration, liquidity/claims/payment interruptions, AI/agentic risk exposure).
* Reusable governance patterns that help cut variance in resilience readiness across business units and geographies.
* Improved ability to operate in degraded mode and communicate credibly during crises.
3) Capital + financing opportunities (for finance/public leaders)
* Structured exposure to readiness-to-capital pathways: resilience finance, blended finance interfaces, parametric logic, contingent liquidity concepts, infrastructure resilience financing, and “de-risking dividend” metrics.
* A neutral venue to shape standards that improve pricing/tenor outcomes and reduce diligence friction—without crossing into execution.
4) Technology foresight that’s usable (not hype)
* Practical governance posture for frontier technologies: AI/agentic systems, cyber/zero-trust, model risk, post-quantum readiness, systemic dependency risk.
* Adoption-grade framing you can translate into policy, controls, vendor governance, and operating limits.
5) Reputation, legitimacy, and communications advantage
* Senior-level affiliation with a neutral, governance-grade forum—built for credibility, not marketing.
* Safer, more disciplined public positioning: clarity on what is known, what is uncertain, and what is being done, reducing misstatement risk.
6) High-signal network effects (not generic networking)
* Access to a curated peer set across sovereign/public authorities, finance, operators, and science/standards—people who can actually move systems.
* Faster backchannels for crisis coordination logic (within lawful, competition-safe boundaries).
7) Institutional pathway unlock (optional, but powerful)
* If you choose, Leadership Council membership gives a clean pathway to help your institution engage as an institutional Member/Partner/Sponsor and appoint representatives to sector councils.
* You remain in control: no quotas, no selling, no fundraising targets—just structured options your institution can evaluate.
8) Board pathway
* A defined route to Board nomination consideration after ≥12 months in Good Standing, based on contribution, integrity posture, and participation (not popularity).
Appointment
* Appointment is subject to fit-and-proper screening and conflict-of-interest disclosure.
* If appointed, members must maintain Leadership Council Membership in Good Standing, including participation and an annual subscription supporting independent operations and convening logistics.
* Board nomination pathway: eligibility after ≥12 months in Good Standing.
* A limited waiver/deferral pathway may be available in exceptional cases and is assessed during appointment.