Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT) published an interview with me on long term risk: Interview: Roland Kupers on Risk for Long-Term Investors FCLT is an initiative from large institutional investors and McKinsey, to stimulate a longer term horizon... Read Blogpost
Far from establishing – or even debating – a specific level to which to reduce inequality, politicians continue to allow it to rise. This will change only when policymakers treat inequality more like GDP growth, health care, or climate-change mitigation:... Read Blogpost
In a chapter in the 2018 WEF Global Risk report, I describe how a resilience lens can function as a risk management approach for non-standard risk. The kind of risk that emerges in complex systems, where traditional risk tools fall... Read Blogpost
The Netherlands is embarking on an effort to define a next set of climate policy targets. This editorial in the Financieel Dagblad recommends considering including a ratcheting mechanism. Ratcheting was the major innovation of the COP21 Paris agreement. Faced with... Read Blogpost
Standard risk management tools generally hold the implicit assumption that risks are normalized. Indeed the usual representation of risks on a matrix showing probability on one axis against impact on the other requires the risk to be quantified in the... Read Blogpost
The Economist has written: “Farewell, left versus right. The contest that matters now is open against closed”. In other places I have written extensively about how the traditional left/right divide has ended up conflating means and ends. The great human... Read Blogpost
