In this recorded session, BDO's expert panellists explore the ascent of geopolitical risk as one of the most prominent risks facing organisations today, offering insights on the strategies available to NEDs and boards while navigating this uncertain landscape.
From escalating world trade tensions to tectonic shifts in long-established geopolitical relationships, the global risk landscape has sustained an unprecedented wave of shocks.
In 2025, organisations are unpacking the consequences of recent elections on economic, regulatory and policy contexts through a geopolitical lens.
Watch on demand now to explore real-life implications for boards, and strategies that they can implement to tangibly respond to the changing risk landscape.
Topics include:
- The ways in which boards can effectively build resilience into their overall risk strategies, discussing opportunities to manage challenges arising from global risk events - particularly through helping set consistent risk standards, guiding a robust risk response to mercurial external conditions and resulting risks, and contributing to enhancing the overall performance of their business.
- The pressing concern of cyber threats in an interconnected world, exploring likely exploitation of IT vulnerabilities in a charged and suddenly more complex political and economic environment. Speakers will also discuss the role of AI as a key driver for competitiveness, alongside its role in driving geopolitical imbalances and technological disparities.
- How those charged with governance can respond to mixed sustainability and ESG sentiment, exploring the US-spearheaded “anti-sustainability backlash” vis-à-vis more supportive regulatory environments in the UK and Europe.
Speakers include:
- Hannah Routh - Partner, Head of Sustainability and ESG Client Services.
- Jason Gottschalk - Partner, Head of Cyber.
- Aliza Voznaya - Partner, Head of Risk Consulting.
- CHAIR: Jo Gilbey - Partner, Head of Public Markets and Co-Chair of NED Network.
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Key Contacts:
Sasha Molodtsov - Partner
Matthew White - Senior Partner
Sophie Michael - National Head of Retail