Avantika Banerjee

We live in a period of significant geopolitical change. There is a rise of multipolarity and competing geopolitical blocs, fragmented economic realities, shifting industrial policies, social and technological disruption, and increasing erosion around international standards and institutions that used to be the normative framework for accountability and trust.

In this environment, is the lens of governance also evolving? Can governance continue to be viewed primarily through the silo of an individual organization, sector or jurisdiction, or do changing geopolitical conditions require a broader lens, that connects global policy and emerging geopolitical landscapes with institutional practice?

Such a lens raises questions about how governance recognizes emerging patterns across geopolitical, social, cultural, economic and organizational contexts; navigates public, private and civic institutions with differing and often competing priorities; and translates geopolitical realities and emergent risk landscapes, into responsive institutional structures and practices.

The underlying question, we need to explore further is, what happens when geopolitical uncertainty stops being an external risk to organizations and becomes an integral design condition for the structure and practice of governance itself?

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