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What are frontier risks and how can we prepare for them?
"Frontier risks” are characterized by unknown likelihood and/or unknown impacts. Here are five ways leaders can prepare for frontier risks in the future.
Ngaire Woods
BA in Economics and LLB (Hons) in Law, Auckland University; Rhodes Scholar, MPhil and DPhil, University of Oxford. Formerly: taught at Harvard University; Adviser to IMF Board, Commonwealth Heads of Government, UNDP. Founding Dean, Blavatnik School of Government. Founder and Director: Global Economic Governance Programme; Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship Programme. Author: The Globalizers - the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers; The Politics of Global Regulation. Expertise: international cooperation and global economic institutions.
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