This project is a collaboration between Meg Rithmire of Harvard Business School and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. The project is supported by a bipartisan advisory group of leading experts on the global economy, national security, technology, and business.

We are working to build a governance framework that will (a) provide organizations with new tools to make decisions on commercial and national security risk in light of intensifying geopolitical challenges, and (b) improve and inform discourse among the American public about geopolitical risks and their impacts on the U.S. economy.

We recognize significant risks to U.S. organizations and to national security that can arise from dependence on the global economy. At the same time, we also recognize that certain firms will nonetheless continue to do business in and with firms in sensitive geographies, often with important benefits to the U.S. economy and global prosperity. Therefore, the goals of developing a governance framework are to:

• facilitate transparency and sharing of best practices in the assessment of geopolitical risk;
• help organizations to better assess, manage, and mitigate geopolitical risk by helping them to obtain the best and most timely information on risk, thereby helping to better insulate the U.S. economy from such risks , and
• promote improved public-private discourse and partnership on risk, with the goal of increasing awareness of efforts to address geopolitical risk among the public.