World Economic Forum

ISBN: 92-95044-50-9 978-92-95044-50-0 REF: 30121 Authors: WEF in collaboration with Oxford Martin School and partners

Resilience is the theme that runs through the eighth edition of this report. It seems an obvious one when contemplating the external nature of global risks because they are beyond any organization’s or nation’s capacity to manage or mitigate on their own. And yet global risks are often diminished, or even ignored, in current enterprise risk management. One reason for this is that global risks do not fit neatly into existing conceptual frameworks.