Donald Trump may have finally conceded this week that Joe Biden will become the next US president – less than two weeks before Mr Biden’s inauguration – after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol Building in Washinton DC, but worries about the rise of populism in the world’s richest country remain sky high.
The European Risk Management Council’s chairman, Evgueni Ivantsov, said that populism was the chief geopolitical concern that emerged from the council’s latest global survey of risk managers.