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AmericasJanuary 8 2021

Rising US populism tops risk managers' fears

US institutions' inability to handle Trump-inspired populism a big worry, says the European Risk Management Council.
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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.

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Silvia Pavoni is editor in chief of The Banker. Silvia also serves as an advisory board member for the Women of the Future Programme and for the European Risk Management Council, and is part of the London council of non-profit WILL, Women in Leadership in Latin America. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary fellowship by City University of London.
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