This report is aimed at helping Risk Managers to take a forward-looking approach to anticipate unknown and evolving threats that transcend traditional risk frameworks.
The use of structured foresight tools like scenario planning, horizon scanning and future wheels can help us to explore how risks may evolve and interact under different future circumstances.
A foresight approach focuses on understanding trends and exposures and mapping vulnerabilities and interdependencies to ultimately strengthen risk management strategies.
Rather than aiming to predict one, definitive future, a foresight-driven philosophy broadens the spectrum of potential scenarios. This fosters a culture of proactive adaptation, shared insight and enhances organisations’ capability to navigate and influence and increasingly uncertain global risk environment.
The Foresight Committee is not a one-off, static event; we are open to further contributions and will continue to welcome inputs from experts. And this NEXT report is the first of many more.
Let’s become future-focused Risk Managers.
Members of the Foresight Committee
Daria Krivonos
CEO, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Sebastian Wieczorek
CEO, Mantix
Bruno Colmant
Professor, Board member of several companies/hospitals
Prof Dr. Paulino Fajardo
Head of Disputes for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Sean Lyons
Corporate Defense Authority, Writer, and Speaker, Consultant
Philippe Cotelle
FERMA Board Member and Chairperson of the Foresight Committee
Charlotte Hedemark
President of FERMA
Typhaine Beaupérin
CEO of FERMA
