Board Member, Principal Seat

Overview of the Board Member, Principal Seat at The Global Risks Alliance (GRA)

The year 2026 demands a fundamental rebuild of our operating systems, not merely a return to normalcy. Systemic risks are now interconnected events impacting balance sheets, liquidity, and continuity – encompassing climate volatility, macro-financial stress, cyber/outage cascades, infrastructure fragility, geopolitical fragmentation, and frontier technology risks. These shocks intensify, spread through supply chains, and overwhelm traditional institutional coordination capacities.

The issue isn't a lack of capital, but rather the absence of execution-ready risk infrastructure. We need shared, competition-safe discipline that enables risk decisions to be deployed and scrutinized across banking, insurance, asset management, market utilities, and sovereign finance.

The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) is an international business league for the financial system, designed to be the next-generation institutional home for modern risk management and resilient finance in an era of exponential risk and technology. GRA brings together founding leaders from banking, insurance/reinsurance, asset management, capital markets, exchanges/market utilities, payments, DFIs/MDBs, and critical infrastructure finance to construct the missing operating layer for the global system. This involves developing reusable patterns, governance discipline, and adoption pathways that reduce variance and accelerate lawful execution.

Board Councils

GRA is establishing Nexus Board Councils – high-trust, expert-led governance bodies responsible for setting priorities and deliverables by sector. These councils include:

• Banking & Treasury Council: Focusing on liquidity, credit, continuity, and operational resilience.
• Insurance & Reinsurance Council: Addressing basis risk, claims/servicing discipline, and protection gaps.
• Asset Management & LP/GP Council: Concentrating on diligence compression, comparability, and monitoring posture.
• Capital Markets & Market Structure Council: Covering interoperability, issuance readiness, and stress execution.
• Market Utilities & Payments Council: Dedicated to continuity patterns, outage cascades, and settlement confidence.
• Sovereign / DFI / MDB Council: Working on corridor alignment and lawful money-in-motion readiness.

These Board Councils are where the work transforms into adoption-grade solutions: prioritized, versioned, and reusable across diverse institutions and jurisdictions.

Why GRA is Essential Now

Leaders are consistently grappling with the same questions without a shared operating layer:

• Execution under stress: Can we maintain operations through outages and cascading third-party failures?
• Deployability: Can we expedite processes without compromising diligence and governance standards?
• Dispute containment: Can we mitigate model and basis-risk disputes before they escalate into reputational crises?
• Cross-border alignment: Can we coordinate effectively across corridors without capture, collusion, or fragmented assumptions?

GRA aims to reduce variance, compress diligence processes, and harden execution – all without centralizing authority.

What Councils Deliver

Councils will develop and maintain a shared library of operator-safe artifacts, including:

• Risk standards and lane patterns (signal → decision → structure → monitoring) by domain.
• Template libraries for term-sheet/facility patterns; jurisdiction-aware, stress-ready, and repeatable.
• Servicing & continuity playbooks covering degraded-mode operations, escalation, and fallbacks.
• Telemetry posture defining audit-friendly monitoring minima and comparability across programs.
• Dispute & exception clocks outlining timelines, thresholds, and escalation triggers.
• Corridor adoption playbooks aligning sovereign priorities, supervisory expectations, and private capacity in a competition-safe manner.

The value metrics are non-numeric: faster time-to-decision, reduced dispute friction, stronger auditability, hardened continuity, and decreased variance across institutions.

Who Should Apply

The ideal candidate for a Board Member, Principal Seat is a senior principal capable of shaping outcomes and mobilizing adoption within 12 months. This requires:

• C-level / senior leadership experience in banking, insurance/reinsurance, asset management, capital markets, market utilities, payments, DFIs/MDBs, or sovereign finance.
• Credibility in risk governance, resilience, market structure, systemic risk, or operational continuity.
• Capacity to actively contribute to build cycles (templates/playbooks/review lanes), not just attendance.
• Ability to activate participation through membership, sponsorship, partnerships, hosting, pilots, and corridor programs.
• A current full-time role elsewhere (this is not an employment position).

This is a foundational opportunity: a principal seat to help construct the essential risk operating layer for the financial system, preventing improvisation during future cascades.

Apply / Contact

To apply, attach a cover letter to your application or submit it directly to: members@therisk.global.You can also apply here: https://therisk.global/work/job/board-council-member-global-risks-alliance/

For inquiries, please email: members@therisk.global. Learn more about The Global Risks Alliance at https://globalriskalliance.com/.

Key skills/competency

• Risk Management
• Financial Governance
• Systemic Risk
• Operational Resilience
• Capital Markets
• Insurance/Reinsurance
• Asset Management
• Strategic Leadership
• Policy Development
• Financial Technology