In Episode 399 of The International Risk Podcast, Dominic and Craig examine the real economics of artificial intelligence: how CFOs should measure AI returns, when automation becomes job displacement, why agentic workflows are changing competitive advantage, and how AI is becoming a geopolitical and governance challenge. They discuss:– How CFOs can distinguish durable AI value…
Goldman Sachs put a number on it back in 2023: roughly 300 million jobs globally exposed to AI automation, with the technology eventually accounting for a quarter of all working hours in the US. Numbers like that travel faster than the caveats attached to them. On the newest episode of The International Risk Podcast, host…
Lucy Wark is an Australian two-time founder, social scientist from the University of Cambridge, and ex-McKinsey consultant based in Melbourne. Wark co-founded two ventures: Normal, an Australian sextech company focused on inclusive, education-driven sexual wellness and one of several brands launched under health-tech group Eucalyptus; and Fuzzy, a career skills and negotiation platform she launched…
For much of the twentieth century, Hong Kong established itself as one of the world’s great commercial success stories. Few jurisdictions combined a strategic location, deep capital markets and an internationally trusted legal system as effectively. Operating as a free port under British administration from 1842, the territory developed into one of Asia’s leading financial…
In July 2026, AI systems being tested at OpenAI coordinated among themselves, breached an outside company and took administrative control of part of their developer’s infrastructure. The incident did not cause a catastrophe. It does show that AI risk no longer respects the boundaries that organizations, regulators and states rely on to manage it. Dominic…
Andrew J. Adams is Practice Leader of the Labor & Employment Practice Group at DarrowEverett LLP, where he also serves as a member of the firm’s Business Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution and Regulatory & Compliance Practice Groups. He advises organisations on employment law, workplace investigations, regulatory compliance, and government enforcement, representing clients ranging from…
Listen to this episode of the International Risk Podcast, where N.S. Nappinai, Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and founder of Cyber Saathi, joins host Dominic Bowen to explore India’s evolving cyber law and data protection landscape. The conversation covers how India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA) compares with the EU’s GDPR, the risks foreign companies face when outsourcing to Indian suppliers, and the growing role of AI-driven cybercrime. Nappinai also discusses the urgent need for a dedicated cybersecurity law in India, the balance between regulation and innovation, and why international cooperation remains critical to tackling cross-border cyber risk.
This could be the most controversial World Cup in history. In this episode of The International Risk Podcast, host Dominic Bowen is joined by Professor Simon Chadwick, one of the world’s leading experts on the geopolitical economy of sport, to unpack the politics behind the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Chadwick challenges the term “sportswashing,” arguing…
For more than six decades, USAID sat at the centre of the global humanitarian and development system. A little over a year ago, USAID became one of the first targets of the Trump administration’s DOGE campaign. Today, the hum and development sector is grappling with profound uncertainty at precisely the moment humanitarian needs are growing,…
Nicholas Enrich is a former civil servant who worked at USAID under four administrations. He served as the Bureau of Global Health’s director of policy, programs, and planning until January 2025, when he was designated as USAID’s acting assistant administrator for global health. On March 2, 2025, he was placed on administrative leave for exposing the Trump…
