Acknowledgements
The Global Risks 2014 report synthesizes the insights, ideas and contributions of many individuals through workshops, group calls and research. The World Economic Forum and the Global Risks 2014 report team is grateful to all who took part in the challenge to think hard about global risks. Without their dedication, guidance and support, it would not have been possible to develop this report.
Global Risks 2014, Ninth Edition Report Partners1
Marsh & McLennan Companies (Marsh, Oliver Wyman)
- Daniel Abell
- Francois Austin
- Jerry Cacciotti
- John Drzik
- Jason Groves
- Lucy Nottingham
- Roland Rechtsteiner
- Richard Smith-Bingham
- Terry Stone
- Nick Studer
- Davide Taliente
- Emily Thornton
- Alex Wittenberg
Swiss Re
- Philippe Brahin
- David Bresch
- Iordanis Chatziprodromou
- Josephine Chennell
- David Cole
- Rainer Egloff
- Beat Habegger
- Jerome Haegeli
- Richard Mark Heard
- Kurt Karl
- Urs Leimbacher
- Tauno Loertscher
- Christoph Nabholz
- Meret Reifler
- Gilles Renouil
- Oliver Schelske
- Reto Schnarwiler
- Reto Schneider
- Matt Singleton
- Andreas Spiegel
- Rolf Tanner
- Kaja Voegele
- Stefanie Weigelt
- Bernd Wilke
- Simon Woodward
Zurich Insurance Group
- Lori Bailey
- Larry Collins
- Linda Conrad
- Daniel Eherer
- Daniel Hofmann
- Benno Keller
- Axel Lehmann
- James Moffatt
- Lindene Patton
- Gregory Renand
- John Scott
- James Shira
- Tim Stapleton
- Andrea Stuermer
- Steve Wilson
National University of Singapore
- Caroline Brassard
- Oliver Chen
- Michael Douglass
- Ho Teck Hua
- Jussi Keppo
- Lutfey Siddiqi
- Tan Chorh Chuan
- Tay Lee Teng
Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
- Ian Goldin
Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Karen Campbell
- Howard Kunreuther
- Erwann Michel-Kerjan
- Mike Useem
Special Additional Contributors
Atlantic Council
- Jason Healey
- Jason Thelen
Eurasia Group
- Ian Bremmer
- Larry Cristini
- Michael Sard
- Willis Sparks
The project team would like to thank the Global Agenda Councils that contributed to the report:2
Global Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risks 2012-2014
Valerie Amos, United Nations; Lauren Alexander Augustine, National Academy of Sciences; Shaun Donovan, US Department of Housing and Urban Development; Bekele Geleta, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); Peter Guthrie, University of Cambridge; Randolph Kent, King’s College, London; Eduardo Martinez, UPS Foundation; Victor Meyer, Deutsche Bank; Kirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security Policy Institute; Satoru Nishikawa, Japan Water Agency; Yuichi Ono, Tohoku University; Andrin Oswald, Novartis; Sara Pantuliano, Overseas Development Institute; Rodrigo Pérez Mackenna, Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Chile; Niyati Sareen, Hindustan Construction Company; Michael Useem, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Margareta Wahlström, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; and Nick Wildgoose, Zurich Insurance Group.
Global Agenda Council on Climate Change 2012-2014
David Bresch, Swiss Re; Juan José Daboub, Notre Dame Global Adaptation Institute; Yvo De Boer, KPMG International Cooperative; Sean de Cleene, Yara International; Dan Esty, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection; Chris Field, Carnegie Institution for Science; Christiana Figueres, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Connie Hedegaard, European Commission; Norichika Kanie, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Naina Lal Kidwai, HSBC Asia Pacific; Caio Koch-Weser, Deutsche Bank; Gary Lawrence, Aecom Technology Corporation; Rabi Mohtar, Qatar Foundation; Edna Molewa, Ministry of Water and Environmental Affairs, South Africa; Karsten Sach, Federal Ministry of Germany for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety; Richard Saines, Baker & McKenzie; Wang Xueman, World Bank; and Changhua Wu, Climate Group.
Global Agenda Council on Education & Skills 2012-2014
Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, Ministry of Sports and National Sports Commission, Nigeria; May Al Dabbagh, Dubai School of Government; Abdulla Bin Ali Al Thani, Qatar Foundation; David E. Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health; Jared Cohon, Carnegie Mellon University; Ricardo Manuel dos Santos Henriques, Instituto Unibanco; Jose Ferreira, Knewton; Roland G. Fryer, Harvard University; Ayla Göksel, ACEV; Jody Heymann, University of California; Yoko Ishikura, Keio University; Brij Kothari, PlanetRead; Rolf Landua, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Sami Mahroum, INSEAD; Patricia A. Milligan, Mercer (MMC); Chip Paucek, 2U; Christopher Pissarides, London School of Economics and Political Science; Soraya Salti, INJAZ Al-Arab – Junior Achievement Worldwide; and Tae Yoo, Cisco.
Global Agenda Council on Fiscal Sustainability 2012-2014
Lewis Alexander, Nomura Securities International; Aymo Brunetti, University of Bern; Willem H. Buiter, Citi; Adrienne Cheasty, International Monetary Fund (IMF); Marcel Fratzscher, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin); William G. Gale, Brookings Institution; Victor Halberstadt, Leiden University; Takeo Hoshi, Stanford University; Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist; Phillip Swagel, University of Maryland; Shahin Vallee, Council of the European Union; Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Jeromin Zettelmeyer, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and Zhu Ning, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance.
Global Agenda Council on Water Security 2012-2014
Robert W. Bailey, CH2M HILL (Halcrow Group); Federico Basañes, Inter-American Development Bank; Anders Berntell, International Finance Corporation (IFC); Sanjay Bhatnagar, Water Health International; Asit K. Biswas, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; Julia Bucknall, World Bank; Joppe Cramwinckel, World Business Council for Sustainable Development; J. Carl Ganter, Circle of Blue; David R. Grey, University of Oxford; Angel Gurría, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Laura Harnish, Environmental Defense Fund; Mike Muller, National Planning Commission; David G. Rosenberg, AeroFarms; Oyun Sanjaasuren, Ministry of Environment and Green Development of Mongolia; Monica Scatasta, European Investment Bank; Jeff Seabright, Coca-Cola Company; Mike Young, University of Adelaide; and Alexander Jakob Zehnder, triple Z.
Global Agenda Council on Youth Unemployment 2012-2014
Poonam Ahluwalia, Youth Employment Summit (YES) Campaign; Abdullah S.Al Rabeeah, Saudi Basic Industries Corporation; Arup Banerji, World Bank; Umran Beba, PepsiCo; May Habib, Qordoba; Choeun Hong, National Employment Agency; Jill Huntley, Accenture; Majid Jafar, Crescent Petroleum; Deepali Khanna, MasterCard Foundation; Chris Kirk, GEMS Education; Frannie Léautier, The African Capacity Building Foundation; Vivian M. Lopez, United Nations Children’s Fund; Jamie McAuliffe, Education For Employment (EFE); Branka Minic, Future Work Consulting; Christopher J. Nassetta, Hilton Worldwide; Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency; Curt Rhodes, Questscope; Amy Rosen, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship; Sean C. Rush, JA Worldwide; and José Manuel Salazar Xirinachs, International Labour Organization.
We would also like to thank all the people who participated in the Global Risks Perception Survey 2013-2014.
At the World Economic Forum
Founder and Executive Chairman
Klaus Schwab
Managing Directors
David Aikman, Robert Greenhill, Jeremy Jurgens, Lee Howell, Adrian Monck, Sarita Nayyar, Gilbert Probst, Jean-Pierre Rosso, Rick Samans and Alois Zwinggi.
The Global Risks 2014 report team
Jennifer Blanke, Chief Economist, Senior Director
Content Development and Project Management
Ciara Browne, Associate Director; Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Lead Economist, Director; Caroline Galvan, Economist, Manager.
Project Team
Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Senior Economist, Associate Director; Gemma Corrigan, Project Associate; Roberto Crotti, Quantitative Economist, Manager; Attilio Di Battista, Junior Quantitative Economist; Gaëlle Dreyer, Project Associate; Thierry Geiger, Economist, Associate Director; Tania Gutknecht, Community Manager; and Andrew Wright, Freelance Writer.
Production Team
Ann Brady, Associate Director; David Bustamante, Senior Manager; Kamal Kimaoui, Director; Fabienne Stassen, Freelance Editor; Moritz Stefaner, Freelance Information Visualizer; and Neil Weinberg, Graphic Designer. Online report: Design Resources Ltd.
The project team expresses its gratitude to the colleagues from the World Economic Forum who provided advice and feedback throughout the development of the Global Risks 2014 report:
Guillaume Amigues, Andrew Andrea, Marisol Argueta, Anastassia Aubakirova, Adeyemi Babington-Ashaye, Andrew Bishop, Carl Björkman, Roberto Bocca, Giancarlo Bruno, Sebastian Buckup, Alex Crueger, Piers Cumberledge, Nick Davis, Isabel de Sola, Michael Drexler, Mirek Dusek, John Dutton, Diana El-Azar, David Gleicher, Martina Gmür, Chiemi Hayashi, Elsie Kanza, Annika Kiessler, Marina Krommenacker, Helena Leurent, Alan Marcus, Viraj Mehta, Alex Mung, Liana Melchenko, Stephan Mergenthaler, Tanya Milberg, Alex Mung, Derek O’Halloran, Sushant Palakurthi Rao, Mel Rogers, Shubra Saxena Kabra, Olivier Schwab, Sandeep Sengupta, Paul Smyke, Akira Tsuchiya, Kristel van der Elst, Regula Waltenspuel, Dominic Waughray, Tiffany West, Alex Wong, Saadia Zahidi and Catherine Zwahlen.