The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) · 16 hours ago
Board Member (Leadership Council)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
15+ years expThe Global Centre for Risk & Innovation (GCRI) is being established as a leading institution for risk science and innovation. As a Board Member of the Leadership Council, you will contribute to defining the mission, designing programs, and ensuring GCRI’s work meets the needs of various stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
Contribute to defining GCRI’s mission and long-term vision as the global reference centre for risk science and innovation
Help design the initial portfolio of programs and labs—e.g., climate and disaster risk, systemic financial risk, infrastructure resilience, anticipatory action
Participate in Council processes that set annual and multi-year priorities, including where and how GCRI will invest effort, partnerships, and resources
Help set expectations for methodological rigor, transparency, reproducibility, and uncertainty management in GCRI’s outputs
Contribute to the design of validation, benchmarking, and replication frameworks for models, indices, and toolkits
Provide guidance on ethical, legal, and social implications, particularly around data use, algorithmic impacts, and equity
Advise on strategies for data partnerships, data sharing, and compute infrastructure, respecting sovereignty, privacy, and security
Help prioritize and shape the creation of digital public goods for risk—schemas, ontologies, reference datasets, open-source components, and playbooks
Ensure GCRI’s work is useful to and usable by regulators, policymakers, financiers, and operators, not only the research community
Use your platform to bring leading universities, labs, agencies, platforms, and philanthropic/enterprise R&D programs into structured engagement with GCRI
Participate in Council meetings, thematic working groups, and convenings that align cross-disciplinary and cross-regional work
Help ensure that GCRI’s ecosystem reflects diverse geographies, disciplines, and lived experiences of risk
Join as a paid Founding Council Member, fulfilling the agreed governance contribution / dues and remaining in good standing (financial, participation, and disclosure obligations)
Qualification
Required
15+ years in one or more of: Research leadership, National agencies and observatories, Data/AI and complex systems, Multilateral, development, or corporate R&D, Open platforms and public goods
Research leadership – e.g., director/head of a major lab, institute, observatory, or cross-institution program
National agencies and observatories – senior roles in meteorological, space, statistical, or risk-observatory agencies
Data/AI and complex systems – leadership of data/AI or modelling programs focused on climate, disaster, infrastructure, systemic, or financial risk
Multilateral, development, or corporate R&D – senior roles in multilateral institutions, development banks, philanthropic foundations, or corporate R&D programs focused on resilience or future systems
Open platforms and public goods – experience building or governing large research programs, open datasets, or open-source platforms adopted by multiple institutions
Strategic and systems thinker, comfortable linking measurement, models, policy, finance, and operations
Institution and platform builder, interested in designing governance, data, ethics, and collaboration frameworks that others will rely on
Open-science and public-benefit orientation, balancing transparency and access with real-world constraints
Cross-domain convener, able to bring together scientists, engineers, policymakers, financiers, and community voices and move from analysis to design
Long-term perspective, seeing GCRI as a multi-decade institution-building effort
Holds a full-time primary role outside Council
Can commit sustained Council-level time
Commits to join as a paid Founding Council Member and to remain in good standing (dues, engagement, disclosures)
Meets integrity, independence, and professional standards consistent with the GCRI Charter and Bylaws
Willing to fully disclose relevant interests and abide by conflict-of-interest, data-ethics, and recusal policies
Not placed in a situation where Council service creates unmanageable conflicts
Company
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) is an independent, mission-driven institution serving as a trusted global focal point for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Disaster Risk Finance (DRF), and Disaster Risk Intelligence (DRI).
201-500 employees
Funding
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