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Report The Twin Trends of Aging and Automation In recent years, the twin threats of rapid population aging and automation have been unprecedented in speed and scope. Much of the work that older workers are doing are at moderate-to-high risk of automation. This will potentially lead to displacement, which in turn can put older workers in a more precarious financial situation, as well as adversely affect their physical and mental well-being. Government efforts alone will not be enough to meet these challenges. -
Perspective MMC Cyber Handbook 2020 New insights on advancing cyber resilience -
Perspective The South Asia Risks Landscape Water crises ranks as the top risk for doing business in South Asia -
Perspective Regional Risks for Doing Business Economic-related issues dominate the concerns of global business leaders -
Perspective The Burning Issue: Managing Wildfire Risk Examines the global outlook for wildfire risk in the context of climate change and urban expansions into fire-prone wildlands. -
Event NACD 2019 Global Board Leaders Summit Location: Washington, DC Date: September 21-24, 2019 -
Report World Energy Trilemma Index 2019 Annual comparative performance ranking of 128 countries’ energy systems, developed in partnership with the World Energy Council and Oliver Wyman -
Event World Energy Council’s 24th Congress World Energy Council’s 24th Congress Location: Abu Dhabi Date: September 9-12, 2019 -
Perspective Cyber Challenges to the Energy Transition Developed with the World Energy Council and SwissRe Corporate Solutions to strengthen resilience to cyber risks and digital disruption in the energy sector -
Perspective Dynamic Resilience of Energy Systems to Extreme Weather Events: Learning from Best Practice Examples As the world transitions to a more sustainable global energy future, many people now depend on the weather more than ever before for their energy. At the same time, existing and emerging energy infrastructures are exposed to more frequent and severe weather events. -
Perspective The Sub-Saharan Africa Risks Landscape The Sub-Saharan Africa Risks Landscape, developed by the World Economic Forum in partnership with Marsh & McLennan, uses data from The Global Risks Report 2019 and the Regional Risks for Doing Business 2018 report to offer an overview of the risk environment in sub-Saharan Africa. This white paper examines the key macroeconomic- and governance-related risks for the region, identified using the Executive Opinion Survey and the Global Risks Perception Survey. It also explores environmental and public health risks to sub-Saharan Africa – noting that business leaders on the continent did not rate these as key risks despite increasing urgency around both issues – and concludes with country-level data on risks to the region. -
Perspective Governing Digital Transformation and Emerging Technologies -
Perspective Global Talent Trends Study Mindful of the human capital risks associated with constant change, organizations are realizing that people-centered transformation is the key to transferring the shockwaves of disruption into sparks of brilliance. -
Video Understanding What Climate Risk Means for Your Business -
Perspective Advancing Cyber Risk Management: From Security to Resilience Marsh & McLennan Insights annual paper with FireEye looking at threat trends and cyber resilience -
Perspective Identifying and Responding to a Dysfunctional Culture -
Perspective Emerging risk outlook for the treasury department Financial executives are focused on the top three risks impacting their organizations -
Perspective Business Leaders’ Global Risk Concerns Business leaders are signaling rising concern about non-economic risks such as cyber and politics -
Perspective What Might a Responsible Corporate Retirement Plan Look Like Integrating ESG into retirement plans -
Perspective Closing The Financing Gap In Asia, the public sector is completely unable to fund the region’s future infrastructure needs on its own -
Perspective Trusting the Mind of a Machine Various terms such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) “explainability,” “transparency” and “interpretability” have been used by different groups and organizations to articulate this challenge. However, the fundamental issue boils down to our ability to trust the output produced by the machine: to make a significant decision that impacts others based on a piece of output, we must sufficiently trust the output, and to sufficiently trust the output, we must: 1. Know that the output is accurate, and 2. Sufficiently understand how and why the output was produced -
Perspective Advancing into the Golden Years Cost of healthcare for rapidly ageing populations in Asia-Pacific -
Perspective Global Cyber Terrorism Incidents on the Rise Terrorism threats will continue to change as new technologies and opportunities reveal themselves to terrorist organizations – cyber terrorism is an example of a newly developing frontier within the peril.