Navigating Global Risk
Adapting Risk Management to Today's Geopolitical Landscape
Is your organization equipped to adapt its risk management strategies in response to today's complex and rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape? Understanding global risk is more critical than ever for maintaining resilience and making sound strategic decisions.
Insights from the 2025 World Risk Review
Drawing on our comprehensive analysis of 197 countries and territories, the World Risk Review provides a succinct summary of the most crucial risk information you need for 2025.
Leverage the Report to:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of risk trends to inform your risk management strategies.
- Make informed decisions about expanding into new regions or markets, protecting existing supply chains, and mitigating uncertainty.
- Identify potential risks and opportunities that may impact your employees, assets, operations, and supply chain.
- Learn actionable steps your organization can take now to build and maintain resilience against geoeconomic and geopolitical uncertainties.
Wide-Ranging Trade Issues Confront Global Businesses
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but supply chain challenges are creating concerns for business leaders in 2024 and beyond. The M&A landscape is also facing interconnected risks, with signs of optimism on the horizon in a rebounding market.
Global trade patterns are experiencing structural shifts, causing tensions and significant supply chain challenges for businesses — from geopolitical instability, trade restrictions and inflation, to climate risk, currency fluctuations and an evolving labor market.
These interconnected risks create a complex global trade environment, unsurprisingly landing as a top concern for business leaders. Meanwhile, on the financial transactions side, optimism is returning to the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape after several years of limited activity.
While the topic of trade is multifaceted and broad, there are opportunities that business leaders can pursue to make better decisions that will help organizations stay ahead of emerging dynamics now and in the future.
Trade Insights Collection
Our Trade Collection gives you access to the latest insights from Aon's thought leaders on navigating the evolving risks and opportunities for international business.
Reach out to our team to understand how to make better decisions around macro trends and why they matter to businesses.
Explore Key Risk Areas, Insights & Solutions
Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024
Explore the renowned annual ranking of the world's superior supply chains, featuring companies that deliver beyond products—understanding customer value, investing in demand management, and promoting ESG innovation.
View Rankings →Gartner: Unsettled Regulatory Environment Tops Emerging Risks
Survey of 266 senior enterprise risk executives reveals that regulatory uncertainty has become the top emerging risk concern in Q1 2025, driven by political shifts and divergent AI regulation approaches.
Read Survey Findings →Navigating Tariffs with a Geopolitical Nerve Center
Learn how a nerve center can help companies chart a course through expanding tariffs and trade controls by orchestrating nine rapid actions, from tariff operations to supplier diversification.
Read Article →Global Business Complexity Index
Understand and navigate global regulatory complexity with our comprehensive index ranking 77 jurisdictions based on business complexity across regulatory, tax, corporate, and HR dimensions.
Explore the Index →Shifting Trade Flows
Analyze the evolution towards disruption and protectionism in global trade, the rise of "connector" countries, and the implications for supply chain resilience.
Learn More →Mitigating Geopolitics on Operations
Understand how declining systemic constraints, the growing role of individual leaders, record public debt, and countervailing measures exacerbate operational risks.
Learn More →Energy Transition Political Risks
Examine the political risks associated with carbon credit markets (CCMs), debt-for-nature swaps (DFNSs), and the changing landscape of climate regulations.
Learn More →Risk Mitigation Solutions
Discover specialist advice and insurance solutions designed to help organizations measure, manage, and minimize geopolitical risks while seizing opportunities.
Explore Solutions →Global Risk Management Survey
Explore the 2023/2024 report findings on how interconnected risks like trade, technology, weather, and workforce stability are challenging business leaders.
View Survey Insights →Cargo Theft Mitigation
Learn about the evolving threat of cargo theft and discover 5 key strategies, including technology and vetting, to protect your supply chain.
Read Mitigation Strategies →Podcast: Trade & Supply Chain
Listen to Aon experts discuss the impact of global conflicts on supply chains and strategies for proactive risk management in this special edition podcast.
Listen to Podcast →Deep Dive: Trade Risks
Explore the complex landscape of global trade risks, including geopolitical instability, economic tensions, supply chain vulnerabilities, and M&A dynamics.
Read the Deep Dive →U.S. Global Tariffs & Trade Policy (2025)
Analyze the impact of the 2025 U.S. tariff policy, its global ripple effects, and how organizations can proactively respond to uncertainty and protect margins.
Explore Tariff Impact →Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Analyze the rise and fall of TTIP, a proposed EU-US trade agreement that aimed to create the world's largest bilateral trade initiative, its regulatory implications, and lessons for future trade agreements.
Read Analysis →IMF World Economic Outlook 2025
Explore the latest global growth projections, risks, and policy recommendations from the April 2025 IMF World Economic Outlook. Includes key charts, tables, and strategic insights for business and policy leaders.
View IMF WEO 2025 Insights →Regional Risk Hotspots
Explore hypothetical top risks based on the Global Risk Management Survey regions by hovering over representative countries on the map. (Data is illustrative).