Jean-Marc Rickli Head of Global and Emerging Risks, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Jean-Marc Rickli is Head of Global and Emerging Risks and Director of the Polymath Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. He co-chairs the PfPC Emerging Security Challenges Working Group and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network. He represents GCSP at the UN Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. In 2025, L’Express named him among 29 visionaries. Rickli holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford and previously taught at Khalifa University and King’s College London. He co-authored Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century.