GSI Annual Conference: The Changing Face of Risk

The CSIS Global Strategy Institute (GSI) was established in 2004 with the mandate to promote long-range thinking about the big global issues that loom before us.

Over recent years disruptive events have shocked and awakened leaders across the planet to the grave reality of risk. New challenges emerge and recurrent forms of risk have become more prominent — terrorism, natural disasters, disease pandemics, and economic and political upheavals. This conference sought to address the changing sources of risk as well as to identify best practices to mitigate risk and appropriate strategies for leadership in this era.

Strategic Leadership Award Presentation

• Vice Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard

The Challenge of Global Chronic Disease

• Dr. Carolyn Runowicz, 2005-06 national president, American Cancer Society, and director, Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Connecticut Health Center

Preparing for Pandemics

• Dr. Julie Gerberding, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sources of Risk: Persistent and Emerging

• Assessing Global Energy Risk, Frank Verrastro, director, CSIS's Energy Program
• Demographic Pressures on Risk Exposure Calculus, Richard Jackson, director, CSIS's Global Aging Initiative
• "Findings from the Hotspot Natural Risk Project," Robert S. Chen, deputy director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University
• Presentations: Verrastro, Jackson, Chen

15 Responses to Risk

• "Five Steps to Avoiding International Financial Crises," Amb. Richard McCormack, senior adviser, CSIS
• "Five Ways to Implement Technology in Risk Mitigation," James Lewis, director, CSIS's Technology and Public Policy Program
• "The Five Best National Security Investments the United States Isn't Making and Should," Anthony Cordesman, CSIS's Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy
•  Presentations: Lewis, Cordesman