GFC Network End of Year Insights Summary 2025

What’s next Entering 2026, Council Members will continue to generate forward-looking insights within and across their 37 focus areas. These insights will be integrated across the World Economic Forum’s 11 Centres to ensure that ideas are translated into meaningful action. With global challenges becoming increasingly interconnected, collaboration across Councils is essential. Several converging agendas have already emerged as focus areas for 2026. Work on Agentic AI is creating new opportunities for collaboration among members of the Artificial General Intelligence, Data Frontiers, Gov T ech and Digital Public Infrastructure, and Information Integrity councils. The development of the leadership scorecard, with a specific focus on long-term decision-making, is progressing through joint efforts among the Good Governance, Leadership, and Climate and Nature Governance councils. The GFC Briefing Series will resume in February 2026. Over the coming year , the agenda will feature cross-council deep-dives on the following topics: GFC briefing series on highlights from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026: This session will provide an overview of the themes addressed during the Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters in January 2026, framed by its central focus on A Spirit of Dialogue and a programme constructed to address five global challenges. Drawing on discussions that span geopolitics, growth, innovation, human capital and climate, the briefing will help councils identify how outcomes from the meeting translate into forward-looking priorities for the GFC network. It will spotlight potential new opportunities for cross-council collaboration, where cross- cutting issues require deeper insight, and examine how council expertise can inform the Forum’s broader strategic agenda. GFC briefing series on the Global Risks Report 2026: This session will provide an overview and the latest insights from the 2026 edition of the Global Risks Report, which offers an assessment of the most significant global risks across short-, medium- and long-term horizons. In 2025, all GFC Members were invited to share their insights via the Global Risks Perception Survey, which gathered insights from experts and leaders across sectors worldwide and which underpins the report. The briefing will highlight the report’s analysis of cascading risks across systems and discuss how councils can use these insights to strengthen preparedness, inform resilience strategies and support more effective international cooperation. GFC briefing series on the Global Cooperation Barometer 2026: This session will unpack the latest edition of the Global Cooperation Barometer 2026, the Forum’s annual assessment of how international cooperation is evolving across five core pillars: trade and capital, innovation and technology, climate and natural capital, health and wellness, and peace and security. Drawing on quantitative indicators and trend analysis, as Insights Summary December 2025 24