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The lead author of The Global Risks Report 2020 is Smith-Bingham (Executive Director, Marsh & McLennan
Emilio Granados Franco, Head of Global Risks and Advantage Insights) for their contributions throughout the
Geopolitical Agenda. planning and drafting of the report.

At the World Economic Forum, a debt of gratitude We are also grateful to our three Academic Advisers:
is owed to Professor Klaus Schwab (Founder and the National University of Singapore, the Oxford Martin
Executive Chairman), Børge Brende (President) and School at the University of Oxford and the Wharton
Mirek Dusek (Deputy Head, Centre for Regional and Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at
Geopolitical Affairs), under whose guidance this report the University of Pennsylvania.
has been produced. Lee Howell (Head of Global
Programming) has been an important mentor. The report has greatly benefited from the insight
and expertise of the members of the Global Risks
This report has relied heavily on the dedication and Report Advisory Board: Rolf Alter (Hertie School
expertise of the Global Risks and Geopolitics team: Ariel of Governance), Sharan Burrow (International Trade
Kastner, Melinda Kuritzky, Richard Lukacs and Philip Union Confederation), Winnie Byanyima (Oxfam
Shetler-Jones. Thanks also to the other members of International, through August 2019), Marie-Valentine
The Global Risks Report 2020 team: Oliver Cann, Aylin Florin (International Risk Governance Center), Al Gore
Elçi, Emily Farnworth, Maxwell Hall and Yann Zopf. (Generation Investment Management), Carolyn Kousky
(Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes
A special thanks goes to our partners across Center), Kok Kwang Phoon (National University of
World Economic Forum teams as well as external Singapore), Julian Laird (Oxford Martin School),
experts who have contributed to specific chapters Pascal Lamy (Jacque Delors Institute), Maleeha Lodhi
of this report: (Government of Pakistan), Gary Marchant (Arizona
State University), Robert Muggah (Igarapé Institute),
Chapter 2, The Fraying Fundamentals. Moisés Naím (Carnegie Endowment for International
Sheikh Tanjeb Islam. Peace), Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University), Jonathan
Ostry (International Monetary Fund), Carol Ouko-Misiko
Chapter 3, A Decade Left. Dominik Breitinger, Emily (Institute of Risk Management), Eduardo Pedrosa
Farnworth, Andrew Pickens and Jahda Swanborough. (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council), Daniel Ralph
(Cambridge Centre for Risks Studies), Nouriel Roubini
Chapter 4, Save the Axolotl. Marco Albani, Akanksha (New York University), John Scott (Zurich Insurance
Khatri, Marie Quinney and Kimberly Nicole Pope. Group), Carsten Schrehardt (Federal Ministry of
Defence of Germany), Richard Smith-Bingham (Marsh
Chapter 5, Wild Wide Web. Francesca Bosco, & McLennan), Ursula von der Leyen (Government of
Amy Jordan, Zvika Krieger, Rebekah Lewis, Germany, through July 2019), Ngaire Woods (University
Adrien Ogée, Thomas Philbeck, Algirde Pipikaite and of Oxford) and Alexandra Zapata (Mexican Institute for
Anelia Uzunova. Competitiveness).

Chapter 6, False Positive. Ryan Morhard. *****

Thanks also go to members of the Club of Rome We are grateful to the following individuals from our
(George Biesmans, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Gail Strategic Partners and Academic Advisors.
Whiteman) for their contributions.
Marsh & McLennan: Rob Bailey,
***** Alex Bernhardt, Helga Birgden, Leslie Chacko, Blair
Chalmers, John Colas, Lorna Friedman, Jason Groves,
We would like to thank our Strategic Partners, Kavitha Hariharan, Rachel Lam, Jordan Parker,
Marsh & McLennan (MMC) and Zurich Insurance Hilary Pereira, Lily Phan, Viet Hoang Phan, Tom
Group, and in particular Daniel Glaser (Chief Executive Quigley, Stephen Szaraz, Alex Wittenberg and
Officer, MMC) and Mario Greco (Chief Executive Amelia Woltering.
Officer, Zurich Insurance Group). Thanks also to
John Drzik (President, Global Risk and Digital, MMC) Zurich Insurance Group: Paige Adams, Lori Bailey,
and Peter Giger (Group Chief Risk Officer, Zurich Francis Bouchard, Matteo Capolei, Laura Castellano,
Insurance Group). Anette Dahl-Hiscott, Daniel Eherer, Lillian Labbat,
Wen Lin, Alison Martin, Jessica McLellan, Guy Miller,
Special gratitude is due to John Scott (Head of Eugenie Molyneux, Pavel Osipyants, Marc Radice,
Sustainability Risks, Zurich Insurance Group) and Richard Gregory Renand, Jennifer Schneider and Angel Serna.

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